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“People say to you, ‘you’ve changed’, or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God that you have changed, because I don’t want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don’t change. Dead things don’t change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.”
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“God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it's a good thing - the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, so crush it.”
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“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.”
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“Originality is the best form of rebellion.”
― Being Human: Everything you didn't want to know about life.
― Being Human: Everything you didn't want to know about life.
“If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.”
― "They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
― "They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
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