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"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."
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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."
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"Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"
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"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."
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"The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred."
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"And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing."
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"I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd live to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me."
Life


"In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all."
Memory


"They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him."
Life


"Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another."
Ethics


"Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse."
Justice


"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion."
Love


"I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that."
Life


"Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed."
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"A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché."
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