"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."

-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Prayer Quotes #Men Quotes #Touching Quotes

“He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life. Mohammad on the contrary was a warrior and killed many innocent people. True followers of Christ emulate Christ-true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.”
“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2012). “Moth Smoke”, p.9, Penguin
“Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.”

Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press
“Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.”
“One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, weâ€™ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each otherâ€™s chest, and watch each other like stars we donâ€™t know are dead.”

Source : "Scary, no scary". Book by Zachary Schomburg, www.believermag.com. 2009.
“Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.”

Source : Song: Drink, Swear, Steal and Lie
“Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.”
“Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.”

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