"Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise."

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

Asghar Ali Engineer

#Wise Quotes #Mean Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.”
“Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, thatâ€™s certain.”
“If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.”
“Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.”
“It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered.”
“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.”
“In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.”
“When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.”

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