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Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory. With us, religion is transmitted through the father; among Jews, through the mother. Therefore, according to the Muslims, Nadia was Muslim; according to the Jews, she was Jewish. She herself might have chosen one or the other, or neither, she chose to be both at once...Yes, both at once and more. She was proud of all the bloodlines that had converged in her, roads of conquest or exile from central Asia, Anatolia, the Ukraine, Arab, Bessarabia, Armenia, Bavaria...She refused to divide out her blood, her soul.


Amin Maalouf


#love #origins #religion #love

The final standards do a good job of setting the bar for a more environmentally responsible kind of farming but, as perhaps was inevitable as soon as bureaucratic and industrial thinking was brought to bear, many of the philosophical values embodied in the word "organic" - the sorts of values expressed by Albert Howard - did not survive the federal rule making process.


Michael Pollan


#nature

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.


Michael Korda


#always #been #between #distance #easy

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.


Robert Towne


#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.


James S. Coleman


#dependence #his #insofar #only #opportunities

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.


Matthew Fox


#act #dualism #healing #heals #here

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.


Sonia Sotomayor


#cultural #difference #differences #experience #gender






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