The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed in the name of God, Jesus, and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it.
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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
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Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.
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I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
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Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
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A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.
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The president realizes that the whole world has changed. He's thinking about his record in the history books. I think he believes if there's going to be a model for democracy in the Arab world, it's got to be Egypt.
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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
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Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.
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It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
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He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
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The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
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Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.
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My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
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Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
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To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.
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Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
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As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
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The best richness is the richness of the soul.
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The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.
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Impossible is nothing.
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When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.
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When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half
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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.
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