"When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“We live in a world where it has become politically correct to avoid absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the same honor, and all gods regarded as equally true and equally fictitious. But take these same people, who want fuzzy, all-inclusive thinking in spiritual matters, and put them on an airplane. You will find they insist on a very dogmatic, intolerant pilot who will stay on the straight and narrow glidepath so their life will not come to a violent end short of the runway. They want no fuzzy thinking here!”
“For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.”

Source : Fernand Braudel (1995). “A History of Civilizations”, Penguin Group USA
“As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.
“There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet”
“The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have to be Superior. What is different about Islam is it's not just a type of food you ate or the way you dress, it's a total system of life driven by values...”
“If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.”
“Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.”

Source : Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
“I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.”

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