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Belief means nothing without actions
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Action
Belief
Mean
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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Kids
Writing
Writing Stories
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We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.
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Choices
Giving Up
Trying
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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Interesting
Language
Notes
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Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.
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Parent
Thinking
World
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Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.
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Men
Suits
White
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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Over It
Move On
Wears
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True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.
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Imperfection
Love You
True Friend
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Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
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Inspirational
Faith
Hope
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Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.
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Causes
Looks
Want
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What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?
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Being True
Don't Change
Ifs
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When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
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Centre
Debate
Hypothesis
Topics
Prop
Topic
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The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
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Sympathy
Character
Entertaining
Likeable
Sympathetic
Way
Connect
Easiest
Easiest Way
Readers
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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Book
Handbags
Reading
Work Time Always
Ride
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Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.
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Break
Needs
Yeah
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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Diverse
Diverse Society
Everyday
Multicultural
Multicultural Society
Reality
Countless
Negotiate
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We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
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Attitude
Clothes
Cultural Diversity
Diversity
Faces
Smell
Values
Almost
Attitudes
Beliefs
Every
Cultural
Day
Immersed
Rituals
Point
Smells
Traditions
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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Book
Mouths
Recommendations
Reviews
Author
Mainly
Mouth
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Celebrate
Expression
Faces
Facts
Spirituality
Convictions
Deeply
Faiths
Inner
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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Creativity
Impulse
Thinking
Writing
Sell
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When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.
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Diversity
Hijab
Practice
Theology
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That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.
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Feelings
Knowing
Strong
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I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.
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Firsts
Guy
Want
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But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact
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Hurt
Impact
Names
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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Representation
Behaves
Negotiations
Palestinians
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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Kids
Communication
Opposites
Rebellious
Opposite
Extreme
Stricter
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
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Home
Australian
Citizens
Country
People
Presuming
Time Home People
Muslims
Time People
Tolerating
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I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.
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Horror
Realizing
Towers
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The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
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Affront
Competence
Explicit
Hijab
Skills
Symbols
Turbans
Jewish
Bearing
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there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.
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Girl
Connections
Sisterhood
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And it’s when I’m standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters.
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Dad
Morning
Hurt
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You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.
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Believe
Lying
Want Something
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It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.
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Hair
Rain
Wind
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Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.
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People
Self
Years
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My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
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Australian
Conviction
Identity
Intellectual
Observant
Strong
Faith Family Me
Forced
Family Faith Me
Muslim
Muslims
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Children
Diversity
Festivals
Religious
Respectful
Superficial
Worthwhile
Celebrations
Dignified
Ethnic
Mutually
Transform
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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Teacher
Reading
Writing
Attempts
Love Teacher Me
Version
Grade
Permitted
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To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
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Independence
Command
Conviction
Courageous
Creator
Decision
Embrace
Pride
Self
According
Assert
Modestly
Muslim
Openly
Provides
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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Covering
Curiosity
Hair
Ignorance
Pursue
Speak English
Suppose
Muslim
Remote
Stare
Stereotypes
Strips
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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Diverse
Everyday
Generosity
Hostile
Multiculturalism
People
Religious
Good People Will
Celebrations
Connect
Faiths
Good Care People
Parallel
Roads
Spirits
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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Advocacy
Articles
Enjoyment
Human Rights
Online
Palestinian
Passionate
Rights
Writing
Time Always Find
Contribute
Journals
Juggle
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Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.
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Men
Eye
Heart
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