Dalia Mogahed Quotes
I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.
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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
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I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.
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Growing up in an Ethiopian household allowed me to feel like I had an audience before I had an audience.
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I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.
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I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.
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Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
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No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.
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The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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Lack of political progress in solving the linked problems of security, infrastructure and the political process are undermining the consent of the Iraqi people to the coalition presence and providing fertile ground for extremists and terrorists.
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We can't get into a situation of bargaining with terrorists because this would put many more people's lives at risk, not only in Iraq but around the world.
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We cannot get into a situation, and I believe the family understand this, where we start bargaining with terrorists and kidnappers, because if we were to, we would not make Iraq or anywhere else safer.
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...to continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support of researchers, go on marches and demonstrations, and back even tougher action by the police and the courts against these terrorists.
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The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.
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Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.
