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Why does a young Muslim, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up in a bus full of innocent passengers? In our countries, religion is the sole source of education, and this is the only spring from which that terrorist drank until his thirst was quenched. He was not born a terrorist, and did not become a terrorist overnight. Islamic teachings played a role in weaving his ideological fabric, thread by thread, and did not allow other sources—I am referring to scientific sources—to play a role. It was these teachings that distorted this terrorist, and killed his humanity; it was not [the terrorist] who distorted the religious teachings, and misunderstood them, as some ignorant people claim. When you recite to a child still in his early years the verse 'They will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternative sides cut off,' regardless of this verse's interpretation, and regardless of the reasons it was conveyed, or its time, you have made the first step towards creating a great terrorist. ↗

— Wafa Sultan

#islamic-republic #koran #religion #terrorism #theocracy

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. ↗

— William James

#conceptual #experience #flux #furnishes #gave

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#end #happen #i #i do #newspaper

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#exist #find #forgetting #i #lived

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#i #me #mother #shot #ugly

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. ↗

— Barbara Cook

#concert #could #doing #eve #feel

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot. ↗

— Dane Cook

#along #am #being #certainly #comedies

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing. ↗

— Dane Cook

#bring #comedy #doing #gorilla #i

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #life #mere #more #our

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat. ↗

— Dane Cook

#brain #creativity #doing #everything #guess