"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"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."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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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."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"If we reject science, we reject the common man."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding."
-Corrie Ten Boom
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"I really am pretty happy with what God gave me."
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
-Jimmy Carter
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"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
-Cindy Crawford
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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