“Defend your faith (in Allah) with the help of charity. Protect your wealth with the aid of Zakat. Let the prayers guard you from calamities and disasters.” — Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha Nahj al-Balagha Faith, Wealth 6 “Life is suffering, and suffering can make you resentful, murder...
The organism which with the aid of increased adrenal secretion can best muster its energies, can best call forth sugar to supply the labouring muscles, can best lessen fatigue, and can best send blood to the parts essential in the run or the fight for life, is most likely to survive. ...
ideas, and politics I'm concerned with than those who claim to be religious in the same way that I am but have no interest in the political reorganization of society, which needs to be talked about from the pulpit. —
...He cannot conclude however, without observing, that from the contemplation of so great a variety of extraneous fossils discovered in the cliffs which were evidently the produce of very different climates, he thinks himself rationally induced to believe that nothing short of an universal deluge ...
At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved. — John Green 76 The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more. — Matthew Barnett 34 When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it of...
It is the stingiest developed country on the planet in terms of per capita foreign aid and treats its own poor with utter contempt.Biblical Parable on Energy Conservation Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps and went forth to meet the ...
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. ~Will Rogers (1879–1935) What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln, 1860 ...
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.Goethe Faust Quotes In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non...
One thing you need to know about this movie—it has Eddie Murphy in it. The second thing—this movie is brilliantly hilarious. It’s sort of like a “My Fair Lady” with a twist: Two bankers make a bet that if put in different conditions, even a homeless man can become a well-resp...