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• Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

  Aeschylus

  Doctors, Intelligence, Hunger

  Aeschylus, (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides”, p.96, A&C Black

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• Any Name of God in any language is worthy of respect but the original Name of God in the Semitic language is Allah. This (Semitic) is the language of the celestial entities. It is by this Name that the angels call upon God and it is attached to the Title of every Prophet.

  Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

  Angel, Names, Titles

  "The Religion of God". Book by Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, en.wikisource.org. 2000.

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• In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Law, Differences, Literature

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• How thankful we ought to be ... how thankful we are, for a prophet to counsel us in words of divine wisdom as we walk our paths in these complex and difficult times. The solid assurance we carry in our hearts, the conviction that God will make his will known to his children through his recognized servant is the real basis of our faith and activity. We either have a prophet or we have nothing: and having a prophet, we have everything

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Real, Heart

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• The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.

  Brigham Young

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

  Fay Weldon

  Ignored, Pessimism, Doom

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• Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Book, Thinking, Age

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• [The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Jesus, Principles, Betrayed

  "The disappearance of the Jews", www.economist.com. May 10, 2001.

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• The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Drinking, Coffee, Devil

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.

  Arsene Wenger

  Intelligent, Winning, Games

  "Arsene Wenger Mocks Nani for Dismissing Arsenal's Premier League Title Chances". www.telegraph.co.uk. December 23, 2010.

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• Only the prophets see the obvious.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Obvious

  "A menina Sem Estrela: memórias" by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Published by Companhia das Letras, (p. 231), 1992.

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• There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  "Books from Peter V. Brett - Plus an Interview". Interview with Patrick Rothfuss, www.facebook.com. January 14, 2010.

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• They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.

  Marsden Hartley

  Expression, Essentials, Needs

  Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.35, Hol Art Books

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• I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

  David Eddings

  Stories, Storyteller, Good Story

  "Fantasy master David Eddings dies aged 77" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doe, Our Actions, Reason

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.35, Full Moon Publications

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• la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet

  Saddam Hussein

  Hussein, There Is No God, Saddam

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• By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mean, Men, Holy Prophet

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . . . Al-Hotary, the son of Palestine, whose noble soul ascended to . . . in order to rest in Allah's Kingdom, together with the Prophets, the men of virtue, and the martyrs. The heroic martyrdom operation . . . who turned his body into bombs . . . the model of manhood and sacrifice for the sake of Allah and the homeland.

  Yasser Arafat

  Believe, Heart, Son

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• ... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Kings, Men, Onward And Upward

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• Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

  Julian Jaynes

  Mind, Speech, Breaking Down

  Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• All through the ages prophets have looked down through the corridors of time to our day. Billions of the deceased and those yet to be born have their eyes on us. Make no mistake about it...this is a marked generation. There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short time than there is of us.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mistake, Eye, Our Generation

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• The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face, Muhammad's wife Khadijeh never wore the veil, nor did the other wives of the Prophet after Khadijeh died. [...] The ulema have twisted the Quran with their hadith, always twisting it toward those in power, until the message Muhammad laid out so clearly, straight from God, has been reversed, and good Muslim women are made like slaves again, or worse.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Wife, Veils, Hadith

  "The Years of Rice and Salt". Book by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002.

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• The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Attitude, Honor, Age

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• For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Flames, Essence, Heat

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.

  Tom Shadyac

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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