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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#3

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#4

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#5

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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#6

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: seuss

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#7

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#8

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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#9

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#11

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#12

“What a curious power words have.”
― Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

tags: power, quotes, words

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#13

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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#14

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#15

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#16

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

tags: international-relations, violence, western-civilization, world-order

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#17

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
― Stanley Wolpert, Jinnah of Pakistan

tags: achievement, greatness, history, jinnah, pakistan, partition

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#18

“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: 1944-aligarh, freedom, jinnah, pakistan, women, women-s-rights

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#19

“Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: democracy, equality, freedom, islam, jinnah, muslims, pakistan

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#20

“The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: 1948, broadcast-talk-australia, islam, jinnah, pakistan, theocracy

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#21

“We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honourable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation...”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: islam, jinnah, muslim, pakistan, partition, peace, progress

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#22

“Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: india, jinnah, nationality, pakistan, partion, united

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#23

“We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!”
― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

tags: atom-bomb, determination, inspiring, pakistan, retaliation

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#24

“If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

tags: conflict, india, pakistan, war

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#25

“I felt like the Islamic scholar Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), who said on his return from a trip to Europe to his homeland Egypt 'I saw no Muslims in Europe but I saw a lot of Islam,' and of his homeland 'There are a lot of Muslims here but no Islam.”
― Imran Khan

tags: europe, islam, pakistan, politics

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#26

“If you don't build your dream someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”
― Tony Gaskins

tags: build, dreams, future

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#27

“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”
― Roderick Thorp

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#28

“Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: ali, corruption, culture, education, harmony, humor, inspirational, islam, jinnah, leader, leadership, lessons, love, muhammad, no, organize, peace, people, power, quote, servants, society, system

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#29

“No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: 1937-congress, freedom, jinnah, partition, political, settlement, social

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#30

“You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

tags: ali, corruption, development, discipline, education, equality, faith, guard, harmony, islam, jinnah, justice, leader, life, love, maintenance, manhood, morals, muhammad, native, pakistan, peace, power, social, society, soil, stand, system, thinking, unity, values

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#31

“When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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