"Islam is politics or it is nothing."

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Source : "Islamic Revolution" by Bernard Lewis, www.nybooks.com. January 21, 1988.

Ruhollah Khomeini

“He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.”

Source : Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK
“People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.”
“Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.”
“As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.”
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 12, 2017
“We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.”
“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
“Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking.”

Source : Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.70, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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