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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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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Morning
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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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Home
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History
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Im inspired by history, different periods. – Adam Lambert

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History

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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History

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H.L. Mencken

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History

History is the synthesis of all social sciences turned towards the past. – Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

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History

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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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