Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the

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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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. – 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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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: History

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. – Tom Osborne

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The greatest tragedy in mankinds entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. – Arthur C. Clarke

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