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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
Tanith Lee
Love
Writing
World
Somewhere
Else
Dreadful
Possibly
Magical
More
Somewhere Else
Exciting
Feel
Real
Go
Than
Just
So-Called
Real World
Much
Belong
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
Tariq Ramadan
History
Diversity
Country
Rich
Other
Unlike
Promise
Religious
Make
Malaysia
Surprising
Cultural
Any
Land
Full
Compelling
Fragility
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
Tariq Ramadan
Life
Music
Control
Films
Our
We Cannot
Impact
Emotional
Emotional Life
Messages
Advertising
Because
Subliminal
Cannot
Even
Conscious
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
Tariq Ramadan
Giving
Master
Our
Alive
Ourselves
Must
Reconcile
Through
Outside
Step
Environment
Mastery
Rediscover
Around
Educate
Egoism
Us
Requires
Fasting
Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
Tariq Ramadan
Spirituality
Month
Essence
Humanist
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
Tariq Ramadan
Work
Humility
Only
Through
Self-Critical
Towards
Ideas
Learn
Opposition
Intellectual
It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.
Tariq Ramadan
Market
Highest
Importance
Equal
Employment
Access
Equitable
Provide
Governments
Discrimination
Labour
Establish
Racial
Should
Act
Standards
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
Tariq Ramadan
Fear
Political
Become
Increasing
Mindset
Emotional
Part
Also
Reactions
Frequency
Accompanying
Often
Being
Ends
Legitimate
While
Public
Exploited
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
Taslima Nasrin
Education
Family
Class
Mother
Father
Physician
Sister
Liberal
Liberal Education
Muslim
Born
Brothers
Colleges
Small
Part
Small Town
Town
Qualified
Schools
Housewife
Bangladesh
Northern
Middle
Middle Class
Them
Elder
Younger
Younger Sister
Received
Two
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
Taslima Nasrin
Life
Truth
Commitment
Writing
Fear
My Life
Past
Pay
Live
Consequences
Way
More
Write
Allow
Writing Process
Am
In The Past
Process
Interfere
Paid
Prepared
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin
Freedom
Democracy
Rights
Women
Human Rights
Those
Religions
Freedom Of Expression
Also
Oppressive
Women Are
Human
Against
Expression
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
Taslima Nasrin
Women
Mind
Men
Long
Motherhood
Controlling
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Fabricated
Chastity
Like
Concepts
Traditional
Been
Years
Legacy
Victims
Body
Notions
Societies
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
Taslima Nasrin
Life
Achievement
Woman
Consider
Collected
Writer
Highest
Fallen
Hitherto
Title
Awards
Among
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan
Man
Army
Madness
Luxury
Able
Only
He
Like
Napoleon
Prove
Howard Hughes
Afford
Hughes
Who
Thinks
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence
Clever
Sense
Common
Grand
Common Sense
Thing
Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
Terence
Injustice
Law
Extreme
Often
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
Terence
Time
Great
Beginning
Bad
Sprung
Up
Friendships
Many
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
Terence
Hope
Dared
Mere
How
Occur
Often
Which
Even
Things
Chance
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
Terence
Men
Wrong
Demand
Days
Make
Who
Appear
Right
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
Terence
Nowadays
Those
Wrong
Make
Rewarded
Who
Appear
Right
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
Terence
Time
You
Man
Take
Take A Chance
His
Any
Who
Pays
Bills
Chance
Of my friends I am the only one left.
Terence
Only
Am
Left
Friends
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
Terence
Life
Valuable
Consider
Excess
Principle
Thing
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Terence
Life
Too Much
Too
Addicted
Rule
One Thing
Take
Principle
Any
Much
Thing
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
Terence McKenna
Waiting
Earth
Indicate
Haunt
Unconscious
Dealt
Forever
Going
Cannot
Which
Skies
Things
Kept
There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.
Terri Blackstock
God
Burden
Luxury
Nothing
Our
Our Lives
Give
Lifted
Weight
Sin
Crushing
Know
Repent
Off
Than
Heavier
Shoulders
Lives
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