"...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be erroneous to see in the Christians' unloving behavior toward one another a refutation of Christ's message of love...'"

-- Muhammad Asad

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“I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.”

Source : "David S. Goyer Talks His Involvement with GODZILLA and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 4, 2013.
“[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.”
“I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.”
“Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists”
“Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.”
“My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.”
“Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960, Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should 'get off that race question.'”

Source : Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine
“To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.”

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