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TASLIMA NASRIN The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequentl...
TASLIMA NASRIN I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
TASLIMA NASRIN I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not ...
TASLIMA NASRIN I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
TASLIMA NASRIN I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
TASLIMA NASRIN I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh a...
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TASLIMA NASRIN The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouth...
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TASLIMA NASRIN It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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TASLIMA NASRIN Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human ...
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TASLIMA NASRIN All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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TASLIMA NASRIN I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of...
TASLIMA NASRIN I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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TASLIMA NASRIN I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my...
TASLIMA NASRIN I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind ...
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RUPERT SHELDRAKE
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. GUY GAVRIEL KAY From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-...
D.G. HART
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women... GLORIA STEINEM
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but mat... TOM ROBBINS The anti-choice forces are political extremists and religious fundamentalists, who are looking to ma...
CHERYL SABEL I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
ANDRES SERRANO
I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon... RIVERS CUOMO The Pakistani textile millers are very serious about investing in Bangladesh. They have unofficially...
MA AWAL My head was always in books.
KATE BOSWORTH
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of... FATEMA MERNISSI
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for seve... MAGGIE GALLAGHER A driver can be distracted by any number of things. We do not ban eating in cars. We do not ban chan...
BARRETT MARSON I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more...
MALLORY ORTBERG Books have always been an important part of my life.
JASMINE GUINNESS The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is t...
DAVID JAMES DUNCAN The holy books of all religions are powerful books,not because they are religious books,but because ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from bei... ABRAHAM FLEXNER The problem of corruption is a big drag on the Bangladesh economy,
PAUL WOLFOWITZ
My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple... CHARLES STROSS
We often argued but always understood each other, MIKHAIL GORBACHEV One's position should be guided on a strong personal conviction, not political opportunism. Ed Cox h...
THOMAS BASILE Special Economic Zone is a fantastic idea for us, we need such economic areas in Bangladesh.
ANNISUL HUQ
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United S... KAREN ARMSTRONG
A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always... CHRIS CRUTCHER I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III With his death, we have lost a true friend of Bangladesh cricket.
ALI ASGHAR
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, b...
ADA YONATH
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!
AVIJEET DAS
I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end. CECELIA AHERN
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I learned there were lots of realities in the world. HARUKI MURAKAMI
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE Twitter should ban my mother.
FRANCES BEAN COBAIN There are a lot of Bibles and an enormous collection of religious books from various religions that ...
ESTHER BUCK Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and ...
LENORE HERSHEY I'm an old-fashioned guy. There are two kinds of coaches: schemers and fundamentalists. Fundamentali...
GLENN MASON
It's an amazing, very rare admission. Republican pollsters have argued for the last couple of decade... WES ANDERSON
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to mak... TERESA WRIGHT We always ask patrons what's going on. We have a small percentage of chronically overdue books.
CHRISTY FUSCO
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them. PINK Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forc...
LYNNE TRUSS Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quit... E. O. WILSON I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as p...
EDITH STARRETT GREEN
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an... C.S. LEWIS Everybody's for a form of smoking ban,
RICHARD M. DALEY This is the first suicide attack in Bangladesh,
ABDUL MANNAN
I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1... JA RULE Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always ca...
DAVID GRANN There have always been books published for teens that push the margins,
KATHLEEN HORNING
I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have... LOU HOLTZ
Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, no... ANTHONY JOSHUA
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to... TERESA WRIGHT Bangladesh have shown they have the talent and ability to play against any side in the world if they...
WASIM AKRAM
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was t... TESS GERRITSEN
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. ANN RICHARDS It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental. KEN KESEY
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that o... ANATOLE FRANCE I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I&#...
O. R. MELLING
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: ... SAMUEL JOHNSON
The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it s... DAVID MAMET
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used ... LISA LING Foreign rightwing fundamentalists attacked the United States. Domestic rightwing fundamentalists too...
BEN MANSKI
Ban the Ban Rally. HOMER SIMPSON
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The... VLADIMIR PUTIN
God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face. JEANIENE FROST The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, strivi...
MARC VEASEY
