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"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."

"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."

"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."

"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."

"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."

"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
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