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“Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.”
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“If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.”
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“Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances.”
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“O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!”
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“To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.”
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“These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.”
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“. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.”
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“I didn't quite know whether I was writing for the non-Muslim or the Muslim, and at the end of the day I'm writing, I hope, for people who are interested, whatever their faith. Even if they don't have any faith. As a barrister I had certain advantages - I could think like a lawyer and I knew how all the laws were fitted together and all the rest of it. One of the things I realized pretty early on while I was writing book about Shari'a was that that was as much a hinderance as it was a help because the Shari'a isn't just a system of rules.”
