"You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on."

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Source : "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

Daniel Pipes

#Personality Quotes #Looks Quotes #Economics Quotes

“Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.”

Source : John Agyekum Kufuor (2001*). “Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001”
“Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.”

Source : "The American Scholar Winter", 1943/4 issue, (pp. 35-44), 1943.
“All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.”
“Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]”
“The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.”

Source : "British businessman". Interview with Godfrey Barker, Evening Standard's ES Magazine, December 17, 2007.
“When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.”
“I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.”

Source : Sarah Ruhl (2014). “100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater”, p.1, Macmillan

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