"Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith."

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Source : "No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam". Book by Reza Aslan, 2005.

Reza Aslan

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“I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.”
“The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.”
“It used to be when a good record was about to drop you heard it out of every car and every kid with a boom box was playing it 3-4 weeks before it came out. Now it's not like that you just see ipods left and right and there's no anticipation factor. I have yet to see something drop with the anticipation that Illmatic had or that Ready 2 Die and Cuban Linx had. Those records had real anticipation factors.”
“I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.”
“I find the light and work it, work it, work it.”
“Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.”

Source : Speech At 2012 Republican Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.
“I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.”
“I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.”

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