"Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition."

-- Khaled Abou El Fadl

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“I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.”

Source : Kingsley Martin (1960). “Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956”
“It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.”

Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.
“Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.”
“Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.”

Source : Ian Rankin (2014). “Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.170, Macmillan
“Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.”

Source : "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.
“I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.”
“I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives”

Source : FaceBook post by David Malouf from Oct 30, 2011
“Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.”

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