"Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you."

-- Malcolm X

“I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.”

Source : "Marc Anthony: Don't call it 'Latin music'". www.cnn.com. October 26, 1999.
“Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
“But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!”
“Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.”
“Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.”

Source : "Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays".
“I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English language which serves as the means by which we can communicate these values to those around us. Our common language, English, is that which unites us.”
“I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.”

Source : "Grand Designs: The home truths of Kevin McCloud". Interview with Patrick Collinson, www.theguardian.com. April 08, 2011.
“No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?”

Source : Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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