"You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges. From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side."

-- Jeffrey Lang

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“But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.”
“The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of oneâ€™s life,”

Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.77, Metropolitan Books
“Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible.”
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

Source : Theodore Isaac Rubin (1983). “One to one: understanding personal relationships”, Viking Pr
“Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.”
“I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.”
“Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.”
“I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.”

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