"As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being."

-- Abdolkarim Soroush

#Islamic Quotes #Ethnicity Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.”
“Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 02, 2002.
“We feel pretty comfortable making music but beyond that there have been other things to take into account, including promotion, marketing, airplay.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“I have emotional needs that I didn't know I had, and I have physical needs that I didn't know weren't really needs.”
“We''re all misfits here,â€ he says, almost proudly. â€œThat's why I started this squat, after all. Â For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Â Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. Â That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. Â From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. Â From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.”
“Affluence = abundant flow.”
“The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

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