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“In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'”
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“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press
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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”
Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
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“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.
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“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
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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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“If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.”
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“Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.”
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“Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.”
Source : "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". Interview with Stefan Aust and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006. 
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“We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.”
