"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“Anneâ€™s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queenâ€™s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!”
“Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and over the lake to the blue-hazed mountain, such a lonely evening sound to it, like the lonely evening sound of the mothers, saying it is not our fault that we weep so, it is nature's fault that makes us first full, then empty.”
“Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.”
“I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.
“To love someone is to identify with them.”
“Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.”

Source : Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (1999). “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”, p.90, Addison-Wesley Professional
“I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.”
“Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps â€” good works.”

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