"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."

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Source : "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Mistake Quotes #Umpires Quotes #Errors Quotes

“A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.”

Source : Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com
“We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.”
“In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.”
“You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.143, Profile Books
“As long as I can enjoy something, other people can enjoy it, too.”
“Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.”
“Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.”

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