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"Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived."
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"Unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things."
"The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!"
"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability."
"Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready."
"What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!"
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"In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement."
"The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus."
"All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers."
"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."
"The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness)."
"We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes."
"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation-is that good for the world?"
"What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation."
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