"As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next."

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Source : "Virgins? What virgins?" by Ibn Warraq, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

Ibn Warraq

#Suicide Quotes #Assessment Quotes #White Quotes

“I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.”

Source : "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.
“Don't trust your teachers.”

Source : Lectures at "The First Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity School", Zakopane, Poland, March 23 - April 3, 2007.
“There's something really cool about getting scared. I don't know what.”
“I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.”
“Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”
“Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.”
“The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.”
“Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.”

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