"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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"Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.“
-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."
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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."
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"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
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"Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way."
-Ray Dalio
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"I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids."
-Chris O'Donnell
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"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."
-Sherman Alexie
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"To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry."
-Malcolm Turnbull
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"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."
-Thom Yorke
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"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."
-Melinda Gates
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