"The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state."

-- Majid Khadduri

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“Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.”
“I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more.”

Source : Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.”
“When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ...”
“I do believe in a God, yes. But that's as far as I want to discuss. If I get too detailed on some things that are personal like that, it gives people an easier way to alienate themselves from me and that's all they are looking for now.”
“The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.”
“I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.”

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