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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
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"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."
Constitution
"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
Government
"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."
People
"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
Being
"Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story."
Home
"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
Society
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
People
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
Tolerance
"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."
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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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Personal Development
"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."
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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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Personal Development
"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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Personal Development
"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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Personal Development
"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Nobody's sane above the law."
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Personal Development
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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