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“Pragmatism is but an experience, and idealism is but a dream. If we live solely by the force of experience, we fall captive to our limita-tions, and if we live solely by the force of dreams we fall captive to delusion.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.”
― Shams Tabrizi

“No man’s religion is better than his politics”
― Gerrit Smith

“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath