"In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state."

-- Feisal Abdul Rauf

#Religious Quotes #Turkeys Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.”
“An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.”
“You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.”
“I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.”
“Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.”
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
“Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.”

Source : Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand
“When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within”

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