"I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam."

-- King Hussein I

#Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.”

Source : Mary Roach (2009). “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company
“The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!”

Source : John Pringle Nichol (1848). “The planet Neptune: an exposition and history”, p.90
“When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.”
“Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.”
“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”

Source : "The Year it Came Apart". New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 30, December 30, 1974 - January 6, 1975.
“All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.”
“Art is a kind of illness.”
“How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.”

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