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"Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."

bell hooks· b. 1952View quote →

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🇮🇳Rajiv Malhotra

Literature

b. 1950

"The modern academics find it politically incorrect to criticize the devastation under Islamic rule, even though post-colonial scholars have amply exposed the ruin created by the British."

"Svargadvāra temple is called Rāma-darbar by many Muslim writers and it is reported that it was demolished by Fedai Khan, the Governor of Aurangzeb."

"No one is evil, they just make very bad decisions. And no one has super powers, they only have their street smarts."

"The reified focus on the moment of literary production, in a distanced context—the typical topic of periodization—suppresses the experience of reception, the actualization of the past in the reader’s present."

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🇬🇧Harvey Brown (philosopher)

Philosophy

b. 1950

"It is far easier to learn science first and philosophy later than the other way round!"

"We charismatics love to say we're going back to the Christianity of the Book of Acts. And at that time, there was only one Church."

"I just catch myself wonderin', waitin', worryin' bout some silly little things that don't add up to nothin'."

"Ken Schoolland at the Hawaii Pacific University Website"

"revealed to me the most important truth concerning human life. Which is that a shared, a loyal, love between two people is the most beautiful, the most numinous, the most valuable thing of all."

"I feel that you reach a certain age and then things start to jell. My sense of self is stronger. I'm getting bolder in my old age. After I hit forty, you couldn't mess around with me so much anymore."

"But there is only one way we will have a Trump shutdown: if President Trump clings to his position for an unnecessary, ineffective, taxpayer-funded border wall that he promised Mexico would pay for."

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🇵🇰Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad

Politics

b. 1950

"Jihad is a duty in Islam. ... Those who avoid jihad are not Muslims."

"The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader are moments of the same reality."

"A theology of interruption demands we attend to the interruption as if the interruption were the real, and the other stuff of our lives a distraction."

"You won’t find solutions to rural India’s health issues in modern facilities that are far removed. Effective strategies will emerge only when you work with the people."

"I can guarantee they had had no contacts with China. We have cross-checked with various sources and were sure that the case had nothing to do with China. China has had no role in the case so far."

"An exact science is one that admits loss."

"One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables."

"“If Catholic Christianity does not offer a vision of existence that transcends the election cycle, if our redemption is social and our resurrection economic, then it’s time render everything up to Caesar."

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."

"If you think, as a Western person, that you are not affected by religious traditions, you are sadly mistaken."

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🇺🇸Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

"Politically aware citizens are ready to exercise their franchise this time, and nobody can stop the nationalist force from coming to power at the Centre. But we must ensure 100 per cent polling to strengthen them."

"The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster."

"Kyrgyzstan: The Bittersweet Fruits Of The Revolution"

"In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by being opinionated rather than by being learned."

"Veganism gives us “THE PEACE DIVIDEND”. The Peace Map is drawn on a menu. Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of Justice”."

"Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time."

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Notable Quotes

"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

"The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

"All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."

— David Foster Wallace, b. 1962View →

"Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands."

— bell hooks, b. 1952View →

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