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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.
Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.
Faith comes not through pondering but through action.
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
When I was at school, I got into trouble quite often.
Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
Avoid the question 'why me?.' It saves a lot of grief
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.