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I don't need to pray. I have God in myside.

— Ashraf Pahlavi In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)

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I don't need to pray. I have God in myself.

Carter didn't kill my brother with his own hand, but he overthrew him. If Nixon were President, my brother would still be on the throne.

In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)

I don't care when I die, when you die, you die. What I don't want is to die in my bed. To be killed in an accident or to be shot is my preferred way to die.

In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)

Persia’s backward conditions were relics of social traditions ... and the women for that matter weren’t ready to exchange the protection they had traditionally enjoyed for the unknowns of a new social status.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

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God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

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