Abdolkarim Soroush Quotes
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
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We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.
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If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
