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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.


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Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
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The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.


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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.


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