"Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics."

-- Mohsin Hamid

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“Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.”
“I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.”

Source : "Drop Dead Healthy" by A.J. Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.
“Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.”
“The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.”
“The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.”
“Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.”
“To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”
“Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through or a purpose of an artist saying something to the world. People usually don't get the messages because of the partying.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

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