"Ageing is a privilege not a predicament"

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Source : Article by Caitlin Moran, The Times, June 18, 2007.

Martin Firrell

#Privilege Quotes #Predicaments Quotes #Ageing Quotes

“I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?”

Source : "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.
“Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see”
“A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born â€¦ in poetry.”
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”
“Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.”
“After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.”
“There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.”
“It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.”

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