Abdurrahman Wahid Quotes, Two Quotes, Islam Quotes

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

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Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Two Quotes , Government Quotes

I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Nature Quotes , Two Quotes

Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Two Quotes , Voice Quotes

I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Two Quotes

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

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It takes two to make an accident.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Two Quotes

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Religious Quotes , Two Quotes

For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades.

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The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.

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Tags : Al-Maʿarri Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Two Quotes

When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Learning Quotes , Two Quotes

As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.'

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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sex Quotes , Two Quotes

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Two Quotes

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , God Quotes , Two Quotes

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Two Quotes