"We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his people were fighting the Quraysh because they were not allowing the prophet and his people to practice their religion."

-- Rukmini Maria Callimachi

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.”
“I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.”
“Activity is intelligence. We follow our information systems and we use our energy to get it done. And that's caused by a byproduct called matter. That's why I call it "energetic matter." And it's chemical matter. We are chemistry.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“The only Romantic thing left in life is a hat.”
“On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.”
“The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.”

Source : "Buy Shanghai!" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.
“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”
“We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time.”

Source : Ervin Laszlo (2010). “Cosmos: A Co-Creator's Guide to the Whole-World”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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