There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

Paul Bowles
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  1. Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

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  3. Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

  4. When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing...

  5. Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

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