If one could voluntarily decide to go mad, I would have decided to go mad.
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In dictatorships, local industry's finest product- the best made, best packaged, hardest wearing, and most quickly delivered to the home - is fear.
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We've seen both despair and hope so often that we no longer know exactly what either of them is.
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Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just
basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, “I understand that you have a culture and identity that exist beyond me. I see you as a human being.”
A Brazilian journalist once asked me, "To what do you attribute the West's 'misunderstanding ' of Islam?"
My answer was, " If a 'misunderstanding' serves the interests of certain people and helps them realize their goals, those people will decide to misunderstand. In such cases, the misunderstanding isn't an accident that can be corrected through knowledge, dialogue, or better information. It's a deliberate choice.
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Life isn't the only thing that lives here.Its opposite, its partner and murderer, known as death, shares its quarters,not as an honored guest but as a silent roommate whose presence is so quiet as to make him almost invisible.
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