"Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power."

-- Mary Douglas

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“Noone's a leader if there are no followers..”
“You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.”

Source : "The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic". Book by R. K. Narayan, 1972.
“I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.”

Source : "Stan Musial, baseball great, dies at 92", www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2013.
“[Pablo Escobar] always told me that the day he used the phone would be his last day, something I had very clear while I was talking to him.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com
“Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.”
“My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.”
“Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your hands of it because you might not be from their background, or you might disagree with their personal perspective. So you discount it and go back into your corner instead of coming out and engaging with everything.”
“If people trust and love you, you will never walk alone.”

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