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Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention. — Janet Jackson
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a… — Walter de La Mare
There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug… — George W. Bush
Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it… — Chief Dan George
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we… — Frank Lloyd Wright
We borrow from nature the space upon which we build. — Tadao Ando
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other… — Wallace Stegner
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to… — Terry Tempest Williams
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more. — Salman Rushdie
I have never been disappointed upon asking microorganisms for whatever I wanted. — Kinichiro Sakaguchi
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,… — Henry Grady Weaver
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is… — Nadine Gordimer
Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that… — Joseph Beuys
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,… — Joseph Conrad
A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a… — Joseph Conrad
I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is… — Unknown Author
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience. — Winston Churchill
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands… — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the shade of God...Those… — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Heaven smiles upon those who share its gifts. — Marshall Vian Summers
You must learn to live with the big questions and wait for the next steps to arise. Only with this patience and perseverance, can Heaven… — Marshall Vian Summers
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… — Thomas Carlyle
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! — Samuel Pepys

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