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“ The most sectarian people are the furthest from being religious. ”

—Musa al-Sadr

“ I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam. ”

—Muhammad Abduh

“ We cannot fight for our rights and our history as well as for the future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness. ”

—Edward Said

“ [There is] little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world’s religions ... The taproot of suicide terrorism is nationalism. ”

—Robert Pape

“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ”

—John F. Kennedy

“ A secular democracy that upholds human rights is neither pro- nor anti-religion. Rather it is neutral with regard to personal belief system. ”

—Noam Chomsky

“ Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts. ”

—Abu al-Ala' al-Ma'arri

“ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ”

—Eleanor Roosevelt

“ When the people will to live,
Destiny must surely respond.
Oppression shall then vanish.
Fetters are certain to break.
”

—Aboul-Qacem Echebbi

“ When you educate a woman, you create a nation. ”

—Hafez Ibrahim

“ Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. ”

—Steve Jobs

“ Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ”

—Peter Ustinov

“

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

”

—Martin Niemöller

“ The creative person should have no other biography than his works. ”

—B. Traven

“ Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ”

—Thomas Stephen Szasz

“ It is not a writer's business to hold opinions. ”

—William Butler Yeats

“ There are no fools more troublesome than those with wit. ”

—François de La Rochefoucauld

“ Revenge yourself on your enemies by not becoming like them. ”

—Marcus Aurelius

“ An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. ”

—Kahlil Gibran

“ Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. ”

—Anne Lamott

“ Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ”

—Mahatma Gandhi

“ I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ”

—Thomas A. Edison

“ It is never too late to be what you might have been. ”

—George Eliot

“ It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. ”

—Paulo Coelho

“ When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ”

—Helen Keller

“ Peace begins with a smile. ”

—Mother Teresa

“ All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. ”

—St. Francis of Assisi

“ Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ”

—Leonardo da Vinci

“ You never fail until you stop trying. ”

—Albert Einstein

“ A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. ”

—William G.T. Shedd

“ The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ”

—John Milton

“ It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ”

—Confucius

“ A person is either your brother in faith, or your equal in humanity. ”

—Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib

“ In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ”

—Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ”

—C.S. Lewis

“ The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy ”

—Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“ Beware the level headed when he is angry. ”

—Arabic proverb

“ If you can't reward then you should thank. ”

—Arabic proverb

“ The best generousity is giving without being asked. ”

—Arabic proverb

“ Good health is a crown on the heads of the healthy that only the ill can see. ”

—Arabic proverb

“ A tree starts with a seed. ”

—Arabic proverb

“ Anger begins with madness and ends with regret. ”

—Arabic proverb

“ Men are judged by the strength of their opinion. ”

—Arabic proverb

“ He who does not have a job circumcises cats. ”

—Bahraini proverb

“ Who ever finds a friend, finds a treature. ”

—Italian proverb

“ No amount of belief makes something a fact. ”

—James Randi

“ We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ”

—Richard Dawkins

“ Chance favors the prepared mind. ”

—Louis Pasteur

“ If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ”

—Mark Twain