"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"

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Taslima Nasrin

#Teaching Quotes #Moving Quotes #Earth Quotes

“A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.”
“Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.”
“John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.”
“I play American and World music, Texas style.”
“And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship. That is not what happened.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.67, Pan Macmillan
“I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.”
“Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.”
“When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.'”

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