Motaz Alfarraj
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فماذا يساوي إنسان لا يساوي الإنسان العظيم شيئًا لديه؟ … وأي معرفة بحق من الحقوق يناط بها الرجاء إذا كان حق العظمة بين الناس غير معروف؟ … وإذا ضاع العظيم بين أناس، فكيف لا يضيع بينهم الصغير؟ …
“learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest,”
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“وشاع أن النبي عليه السلام قضى بقتله فتقدم ابنه، وقال له: «يا رسول الله، إنه بلغني أنك تريد قتل عبد الله بن أبي فيما بلغك عنه، فإن كنت فاعلًا فمرني به فأنا أحمل إليك رأسه. فوالله لقد علمت الخزرج ما كان بها من رجل أبر بوالده مني، وإني لأخشى أن تأمر به غيري فيقتله؛ فلا تدعني نفسي أنظر إلى قاتل أبي يمشي في الناس فأقتله فأقتل رجلًا مؤمنًا بكافر فأدخل النار.»”
― عبقرية محمد
― عبقرية محمد
“It's not man versus machine; it's man with machine versus man without. Data and intuition are like horse and rider, and you don't try to outrun a horse; you ride it.”
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“If we studied any other creature in nature and found the record of intra-species violence that human beings have, we would be repulsed by it. We’d view it as a great perversion of natural law—but we wouldn’t deny it.”
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“We are so used to looking at the world from the point of view of living things that we cannot understand what it means not to be alive, and yet most of the time the world had nothing alive on it. And in most places in the universe today there probably is nothing alive.”
― The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
― The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
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