"Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life."

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Source : "The Reformist as Pacifist". Interview with Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2013.

Asghar Ali Engineer

#Effort Quotes #Goodness Quotes #Jihad Quotes

“I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.”

Source : "SRS Babe of the Week: Tila Nguyen". Interview with Tyrone Rodriguez, www.ign.com. March 14, 2003.
“I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where itâ€™sâ€¦ thereâ€™s good sides and thereâ€™s bad sidesâ€¦IÂ wouldn'tÂ kind of turn the clock back and takeÂ another direction.”
“The Afro-American is not a ***** race.”
“I was not part of the golden age of the record industry, when musicians and producers were making real money. So I have no nostalgia about that time and I enjoy trying to build a new economy, a more humble one. And since I expect to sell only niche music, I feel quite solid, in this little economy. I know we will not become rich with this, but this is not the goal.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan
“Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.”

Source : Marina Warner, Sophie Herxheimer, Gilbert Adair (1994). “Wonder Tales”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand
“If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.”
“And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.”

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