"For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom."

-- Muqtada al Sadr

#Religious Quotes #Holding On Quotes #Duty Quotes

“Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.”

Source : Felix G. Rohatyn (1983). “The twenty-year century: essays on economics and public finance”, Random House (NY)
“Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.”
“Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”
“If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of refugees until comparatively modern times was overwhelmingly from West to East, not from East to West. Refugees of all kinds were constantly fleeing from Christendom to the Islamic lands. Jews of course and Muslims of course, but even some Christians and the movement of refugees went overwhelmingly that way.”
“We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.”

Source : Joseph Boyden (2006). “Three Day Road”, p.261, Penguin
“The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
“I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.”
“The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.”

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