"Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed."

-- Azar Nafisi

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“What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.”
“Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.”
“My favorite dish is tandoori chicken.”
“To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise”
“Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.”
“Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. Â They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.”
“Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains,”

Source : "Reclaiming the English tradition" by Francis Sedgemore, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2006.
“Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”

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

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