"Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence."

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Source : Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.9, The Other Press

Muhammad Asad

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“History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.”
“There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you...”

Source : "Gail Simone : Survival Tips for the Newbie Writer" by Gail Simone, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.
“I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.”
“It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.”
“Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.”
“When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.”
“Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.”

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