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Why should we trust sociology to tell us the reliable truth any more than any other human social institution or tradition? On what grounds is sociology uniquely immune from the debunking powers of its own method?
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
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“أجمل الأنهار لم نرها بعد .. أجمل الكتب لم نقرأها بعد ..أجمل أيام حياتنا لم تأتٍ بعد”
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“Also, we ought to work in this time of grace; for we are GOD’S bought thralls, with the price of His dear-worthy Blood, to work in His vine-yard: and yet He doth promise us reward, if we do with good-will that which, as a debt, we ought to do.”
― The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
― The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
“Macarius said also, ‘If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.”
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
“When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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