The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
SAM HARRISChains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
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When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20 or 21, writing those songs and recording that record.
BEN GIBBARD -
An organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.
ALAN I. LESHNER -
This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
AL FRANKEN -
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ -
A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
BOBBY SEALE -
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
PAT CONROY -
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
MICHAEL CAINE -
Be the one she can count on, and the one who never fails to make her smile.
MARK ANTHONY -
You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
BEN CARSON -
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH -
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
BETTE MIDLER -
I never share credit or desserts.
BEVERLY SILLS -
There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI