#poo

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. ↗

— John Keegan

#about #beliefs #bothered #century #depressed

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#bosnian #brothers #brought #came #christian

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#also #become #becomes #corps #get

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#churches #existence #like #must #poor

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#few #free #free society #help #many

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#attractive #community #decisions #especially #faith

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#better #help #hope #money #person

We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#american companies #bahrain #bse #capital #companies

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread. ↗

— Thomas Day

#luxuries #poor #right #want #while

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#complaint #even #me #people #poorly