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1 " One female who knows what to dois better than a thousand males who don't. "
― Bernard Lewis , Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
2 " I have no time in the world but the time in which I amand that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud. "
3 " I do not dye my hair blackso as to be young again and sin againbut because people dye their clothes black in mourning,so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age. "
4 " Your life is a sum of counted breaths.With each breath that passesa part of life is lost. That which gives life brings death every moment nearer,and your caravan is led by onewho will not jest with you. "
5 " Life is a dream interpreted by death. "
6 " War begins like a pretty girlwith whom every man wants to flirtand ends like an ugly old womanwhose visitors suffer and weep. "
