"I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies."

-- Samina Baig

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“Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.”

Source : "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.
“In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.”
“I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.”
“That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.”

Source : Philip Reeve (2011). “Here Lies Arthur”, p.211, Scholastic UK
“Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.”
“It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.”
“People do a better job if they respect the leader of the company. I learned that on my mission -- the value of people and how to truly appreciate them,”
“On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing”

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