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Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

James Weldon Johnson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

William Dean Howells

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

Patricia Heaton

But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.