"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."

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"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."

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"We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality."

Nature, Society, Forget, Reality

"People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs."

People, Concern, First, Meeting

"If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms."

People, Expression, Identity, Want

"As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being."

Awareness, Being, Consciousness, Identity

"In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner."

People, Attention, Name

"We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems."

Problems,

"Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere."

Energy,

"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."

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"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."

Truth, Islam, Identity, Intellectuals

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"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

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"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

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"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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