"In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life."

-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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“You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.”
“When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.”

Source : "What the Tea Party Really Wants". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 1, 2010.
“I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life.”
“Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.”
“My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.”
“What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.”
“I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.”
“Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.”

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