"Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self."

-- Richard Leakey

#Self Quotes #Speak Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.”
“Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.”
“Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.”
“I want to do the best I can right away. There's no point for me to just kind of be relaxed about it. Of course, in each match winning is out of my control, but I want to try to do the best I can as soon as I can, and I want to have 10 successful years and not five slow ones and then five good ones.”
“Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.”
“I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law....”
“The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
“You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.”

Source : "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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