"Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance."

-- Al-Ghazali

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Mean Quotes

“[The Ben Sanders voters] are more angry now than ever, knowing how Hillary Clinton insulted them recently, they are not going to be happy about all the pay-to-play that was released today between the DOJ and Friends of Bill [Clinton] (FOB's). If you're a friend of Bill, you can get in on those Haiti earthquake relief contracts. How disgusting.”
“A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.”
“To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.”

Source : "The New Republic Calls Out Harry Reid on Clarence Thomas". DinoCrat.com, December 2004.
“And since Iâ€™m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If youâ€™re sleeping with Laurelâ€”â€ â€œIâ€™m not sleeping with Laurel. Weâ€™re dating.â€ â€œRight, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.â€ â€œFor a while. Minus the singing.”
“You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great.”
“Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.”
“There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.113, Penguin
“I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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