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“Bacalah al-Quran, anda akan temui Surah an-Nisa’ (Wanita) dan Surah Maryam. Bacalah al-Hadith, anda akan temui perawi-perawi hadith dari kalangan Ummahatul Mu’minin seperti A’isyah r.ah.Dalami Sirah Nabawiyyah, pasti anda akan temui wanita seperti Khadijah at-Tohiroh r.ah selaku isteri Baginda yang sentiasa memberi sokongan dan dorongan pada awal kebangkitan Islam, Sumayyah r.ah yang menjadi wanita pertama yang syahid dalam Islam, Fatimah az-Zahra’ r.ah selaku anak perempuan yang sangat taat, Ummu Sulaim r.ah yang meredakan emosi Baginda tatkala saat getir, Nusaibah r.ah yang melindungi Baginda dengan jasadnya ketika meletusnya perang Uhud, Khawlah al-Azwar r.ah yang berjihad menentang Byzantine ketika perang Yarmouk dan banyak lagi.”

“Bacardi Limited was started in Santiago de Cuba by Facundo Bacardí Massó, a wine merchant. Having immigrated to Cuba from Spain in 1830, he refined the method of making a quality rum, which until then was considered an inferior drink compared to grain whiskey. Filtering the rum through charcoal gave it a smoother taste and made it the drink of choice in the island nation. One hundred years later, the company headquarters moved into an art deco building in Havana. Other than drinking it straight, the favorite way of drinking rum was with Coca-Cola, which is now called a “Cuba Libre.” At the time I was there, the midshipmen bought cases of rum for very little money and brought them back to the ship without anyone objecting. The Navy also routinely flew to Cuba, and brought airplane loads of Bacardi Rum back to Pensacola, on what were called “Rum Runs.” This was not considered smuggling, but rather was thought of as “routine multi-engine training flights for U.S. Navy SNB-5 pilots.”

“Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. When you think about the fact that the instrument has changed significantly since he wrote for it and his music still really works, it's brilliant. He was definitely ahead of his time. There's something so satisfying about his music. It's beautifully organized and emotional at the same time. I find it highly exciting.”

“Bach represents standing and moving, resting and hurrying, elevation and depression, with a naïveté almost characteristic of the first beginning of art. Without abandoning this minute detail-painting in his later works, his method now becomes, as it were, transfigured. His thought, vision, and emotion have remained unchanged, but in the later works the tone-painting is not so isolated; it is part and parcel of the melodic form that constitutes the basis of his movements, and his genius provided him with themes that contain, in their germ, all the possibilities of expression that the movement will afterwards require.”

“Bach's simple and basic themes ultimately engage and appeal to my adolescent side while the seemingly complex arrangements, though perhaps patronizingly in some cases, also reflect my juvenile perception of what looks and sounds 'grown-up,' intelligent, refined and sophisticated. There were few composers and musicians in my youth that I could say understood me and really got me, almost all were classical. J. S. Bach was one one of them.”