Abdurrahman Wahid Quotes

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Abdurrahman Wahid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: indonesian
  • Birth: September 7, 1940 - December 30, 2009

Topics

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It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

Maurice Saatchi

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In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful.

Ann Leckie

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I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

John Updike

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'All In' is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as the backdrop - how diehard New Yorkers are for their team. Me being a New Yorker, I just had to show my love for the city as well as my love for the New York Giants.

Travie McCoy

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I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

Roman Polanski

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I don't have the experience of being in a war.

Mary Gauthier

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For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

Mary Landrieu

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It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Alice Paul

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The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

Alissa Quart

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I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.

Susan Hayward

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See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard P. Feynman

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