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It's amazing being on tour with a group of 50, but when one person gets sick, it goes through the whole company. We take care of each other - we're well stocked on Mucinex. When everything stays healthy, it's a joyful experience for everyone. ”
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. ”
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah. ”
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. ”
The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal. ”
It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom. ”
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. ”
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities. ”
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me. ”
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. ”