One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you're just changing something. So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing.

The best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.

Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in him, there will be blood in the water, the sharks will come. All [you] have to do is sit back and watch as the world consumes [him].

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A fatwa is a non-binding legal opinion issued by an Islamic scholar under Islamic law. The popular misconception that the word means a death sentence probably stems from the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran in 1989 regarding the author Salman Rushdie, who he stated had earned a death sentence for blasphemy. This event led to fatwas gaining widespread media attention in the West.

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The word "jihad" does not always mean "holy war"; literally, the word in Arabic means "struggle". While there is such a thing as "jihad bil saif", or jihad "by the sword", many modern Islamic scholars usually say that it implies an effort or struggle of a spiritual kind. Scholar Louay Safi asserts that "misconceptions and misunderstandings regarding the nature of war and peace in Islam are widespread in both the Muslim societies and the West", as much following 9/11 as before.

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George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter, though he reputedly discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more for soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes.