Quaboos bin Said Quotes
History has proven that nations do not advance and develop without the continuous renewal of their ideas. This also applies to individuals and people
The Sultan was one of the few Islamic leaders who advocated modernity and development rather than retrogression to an earlier time proscribed in the Koran and advocated by the fundamentalist Islamic religious leaders.
Quaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman, “Oman”, Foreign Affairs, November / December 2006
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See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
As hard as it is for us to imagine today, while her husband was President of the United States, the First Lady wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column every single day with politics frequently the subject. While she usually agreed with the President, there were occasions where they seemed to not see things exactly the same. She tended to be more liberal than he. However, there were those who believed that when she criticized politicians, it was with FDR’s knowledge and blessing and she sometimes did his “dirty work.” Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most influential people in the country—certainly more-so than any First Lady before and since.
Popular at the end of the 19th century when there were great debates about reform
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. It was then, and still is common to refer to the results of evolution as “miracles” as Darwin had revealed the process but did not opine on the origin or creation of the process. With many religious people at the time a sensible dialogue and inquiry could be made of evolution so long as the possibility of a Supreme Being creating the mechanism of evolution remained open. Fundamentalists, however, insisted that the Bible stated that God made each of the species in its then current form and therefore they rejected even the possibility that God had created the evolutionary scheme which implemented his miracles.
