"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca."

-- C. L. R. James

#World Quotes #Mecca Quotes

“My biggest challenge is being in a small town and not being able to meet a lot of people.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this religion or that one etc, and instead, as a human being. Maybe we can stop forcing our ideas like, "I don't want them to marry this person because they are of this religion or this color" on them.”
“Every woman is at heart a rake.”
“Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist, ... The organ of Prayer is the heart, the psychospiritual organ, with its concentration of energy, its himma. ... Prayer is a "creator" of vision, ... .”
“To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?”
“There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.”
“In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.”

Source : "It's not poetry, it's a midlife crisis". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2001.
“If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.”

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