"To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work."

-- Trevor Phillips

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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

Source : Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33
“What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.”
“Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.”
“We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.”
“A sage once said, â€˜How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love.”
“If youâ€™re an actress, youâ€™re always on one diet or another â€” itâ€™s a way of life.”
“We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.”

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