The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.
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Related After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators,... XAVIER NIEL We're going to have a bottleneck in the supply line, in the export line. We're going to have probabl... TERRY FRANCL I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole differe... FLAVOR FLAV There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings.... JANE LINDSKOLD During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live... GREG A. MULLINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. 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VINCE FLYNN Needless to say, the implications are huge. RON DEHAVEN (Ready Kids) is what the American Red Cross has been saying all along in terms of being prepared. In... CRAIG VERLEY The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Everyone has a different approach, but everyone has the same goals. The governor realizes there are ... ADAM LIEGEOT Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don’t intend to offend, but rather defend and open t... GERMANY KENT Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you ... ERNIE ELS There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth's crust, and most of the time, th... DIANA GABALDON Everything hinges on the Christ of the cross. The fact of the cross is the axiom of theological thou... KAZOH KITAMORI Destroy all the barriers inside you and accept everyone with love. We are in each other all along. B... DEBASISH MRIDHA I'm excited to see two of the best players in Conference USA history lining up against each other fo... WATSON BROWN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h... VIRGINIA WOOLF This site has something new for everyone who has an interest in what ADESA, Inc. is all about and wh... JULIE VINCENT All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core ... GREG RUCKA Don't ever think you are nothing. Somewhere along the line, there is going to be someone who thinks ... M.H.S. POURRI In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a pi... MELISSA JOAN HART I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. This site has something new for everyone who has an interest in what ADESA Inc. is all about, and wh... JULIE VINCENT This site has something new for everyone who has an interest in what ADESA, Inc. is all about and wh... JULIE VINCENT We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS The issues umpires face are a little different than those of officials from other sports because of ... MARCUS ENG Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Isla... PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret, MARK WHITAKER Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's al... LEE TREVINO They are set up along the line of task forces. ... They throw together whatever the elements they ne... CLIFFORD BEAL Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which ... A. R. RAHMAN British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast o... JIM STURGESS "There are things you do because they feel right and they make no sense and they make no money and i... DOROTHY STANG A sense of pride is on line. They want to play well because these kids all know each other. CHARLES BOLES Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-... DAVID SHIELDS A couple of my doubles teams were playing together for the first time and they kind of felt each oth... DONALYN WOESTE Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each othe... LUKE MACFARLANE When you line up and get your medals, and you're looking down the line at your teammates getting the... JENNIFER BOTTERILL I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and in... SYLVESTER STALLONE It's the chemistry for one. They just really get along well with each other, and then the other thin... JEFF WALL Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it. ERIC BURDON They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for ... TERI HATCHER Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it b... DAVE SITEK A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired... BILLY EICHNER We are cooperating with each other and with the government in order to disseminate true Islam. We mu... DIN SYAMSUDDIN Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. ... LUCINDA RILEY Both, needless to say, are thrilled. ELLIOT MINTZ Somewhere along the line, I lost the passion. I got a degree in telecommunications. BRIDGET BRANCH They know each other a little bit better on the floor and growing up together teaching each other ho... DOUG BOXELL But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living... JANET SUZMAN I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going t... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER We have our Islam mosques and Jewish synagogues involved, too. Everyone of faith can take part and i... JACK ELLIS We pretty much knew this would happen somewhere along the line. GREGORY STONE They have clear objectives, well defined and clear to all stakeholders who are pursuing these object... ANDREAS SCHLEICHER Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each... PROVERB It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling t... BILLY CONNOLLY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. We all work hard together and for each other. We don't have any superstars. Everyone can step up at ... CHASE BARBIERI Really, all living humans are closely related to each other. If you take different people's DNA and ... CARL ZIMMER Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex... KATE GRENVILLE Their offensive line is a very good, a very hard-working group [that works well] together. Their zon... TOM COUGHLIN I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were. CATHERINE LACEY The struggle against radical Islam should be a joint struggle, and everyone should say, 'There -... MARINE LE PEN We are the same, and we are different. We are the same because we all are members of the same human ... JONATHAN CHEN
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All knowledge all discoveries belong to you... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit w... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL think... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base.... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people... WILLIAM S BURROUGHS Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That old feeling is still in my leaking heart. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Exterminate all rational thought WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go? WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS