"Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights."

-- Robert Wuthnow

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“Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!”

Source : "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”
“Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.”
“A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.398
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”
“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.17, Open Road Media
“Cole chuckled, saying, â€œFear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.”
“I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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