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I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef. Mehmet Oz

Wonderful Enough Marry Chef Lucky

Biology always beats will power. Mehmet Oz

Will Power Biology Beats Always

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves. Mehmet Oz

Time Health Care Mistakes Our Spending Our Time Recognizing Most Health Care Without Causing Fixing American Patients Either Themselves Profession

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition. Mehmet Oz

Practice Preach Nutrition Diet

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature. Mehmet Oz

Food Nature Too Changed Sacred Longer Becoming Efficient Us

In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized. And when you have colonization, what do you have? You have anti-colonization. Mustafa Akyol

You Example Looking Fall Independent East Muslims More Colonization Self-Confident Empire Were Middle Middle East Century Europe Whole Early

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not. Mustafa Akyol

Threats Disapprove Whereas Thing Violence

For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts. Mustafa Akyol

Corruption Women Thanks France Mini Muslim Embrace Hated Wear Disturbance Similar Mentors Partly Ideological Tight Eradicated Western Efforts Banned Which Skirts Who Jeans Belgium Need Symbols

What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them. Mustafa Akyol

Political Made Sense Jihad Siege Easing Muslims Both Tensions Between Crusade Ideas Doctrine Retrieve Dialogue Get Them Should Rid Help Militant Fostering Al Al-Qaeda

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists. Mustafa Akyol

Writing Focus Society Conservatives Religious About Divide Between Journalists Like Most Foreign Turkey Turkish Fundamental Rift

The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God? Mustafa Akyol

God Daily Obligations Legal Will Islam Alcohol Bone State Say Muslims Moral About Main Categories Judged Talking Islamic Contention Prayers Commands Personal Whether Public Enforced

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Freedom Nation Before Mortal Am Get Die Want Used

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Work People Will Rule Way Lead Road Along Feet Know Until Sure Hand Done May Themselves Then Choose

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Life Freedom Sacrifice Nation Final Beaten Makes Does Get Which

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Alone Home Together Mother Sister Living Characteristic Independent Since Like Always According Friends Childhood Preferred Lived

I am my own policeman. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Own My Own Policeman Am

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die. Nazim Hikmet

Will Live Must Never However Die Wherever

I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens. Osman Baydemir

Attitude Government People Cause Judiciary Through Had Majority Kurdish Up Nationalist Justified Turks Lens Stance View Who Media Here

There is no Kurdish problem. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Problem Kurdish

Being in the European Union, we would be building bridges between the 1.5 bn people of Muslim world to the non-Muslim world. They have to see this. If they ignore it, it brings weakness to the E.U. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

People World Building Muslim Muslim World Weakness Would Would-Be See Between Being Ignore Union European European Union Bridges Brings

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