"During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience."

-- Bernard Lewis

#Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes #Government Quotes

“I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.”
“We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.”
“Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.”
“Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.”
“I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.”
“It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?”
“Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.
“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

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