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“Maybe honeymoons are God's anesthesia. Like the "laughing gas" used by dentists, perhaps honeymoons are designed to protect us from a bit of the pain and fear involved in doing something that, while scary and uncomfortable, is for our own good in the long run.”
Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Courage to be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself”, p.90, Council Oak Books
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“Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.”
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“Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.”
Source : FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Apr 29, 2015
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“Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.”
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“All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
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“The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.”
Source : Speech at the First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan, April 01, 2001.
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“It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.†It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.”