"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated."

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Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#Sheep Quotes #Media Quotes #Gdp Quotes

“The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”
“Although my parents were kind and loving, I had none of the joys, or the companionship, which small children usually have. From my earliest years my recollection is of my father saying: 'Do no' or 'Thou shall not'. Any form of sport or light entertainment was frowned upon and regarded as not edifying. There was only condemnation and prohibition...”
“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”
“Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.”
“I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.”

Source : 'The Snare' (1915)
“...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinner table for fourteen minutes, much less at the banquet table of Heaven eternally. Eternity is a mighty long time to be stuck with people who judge every word you say and think and condemn most of what you do. It struck me as pretty miserable company. And if Reverend Pelham was the kind of company God preferred to keep, well, I just hoped they'd be happy together.”
“My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.”
“Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.”

Source : Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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