"History is the third parent."

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Source : Nadeem Aslam (2013). “The Blind Man's Garden”, p.7, Faber & Faber

Nadeem Aslam

#Parent Quotes #Thirds Quotes

“Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.”

Source : Cyril of Jerusalem (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Cyril of Jerusalem (Annotated Edition)”, p.147, Jazzybee Verlag
“Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.”
“Social media are fundamental to communicate and understand what happens in the world. It's a point of view and an immediate commentary.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.”
“The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.”
“It might be comforting to assume that intolerance is an aberration within Islam but discrimination against Christians or any other non-Muslim is in fact integral to orthodox Muslim teaching, and the more profound issue to the serious-minded is not the existence of sectarianism but its extent.”
“If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.”
“Paris ain't much of a town.”

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