"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."

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Source : "Voice of the Maghreb" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”
“Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding”

Source : Thomas Willis (1685). “The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick”, p.490
“Whatâ€™s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, theyâ€™re overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.”
“It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”
“I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.”
“In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary!”
“Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.”

Source : "Bridge" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.
“Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.”

Source : Carolyn Keene (1935). “Nancy Drew 12: The Message in the Hollow Oak”, p.54, Penguin

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