"From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari)."

-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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“Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world wonâ€™t crumble.”

Source : "Helena Bonham Carter: Why I Break All the Fashion Rules" by Paul Chi, people.com. January 26, 2011.
“I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ***** and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.”
“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.”
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Fundamentals make the market.”
“Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.”
“I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.”

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