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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 accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Peace
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I defend both the freedom of expression and societys right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. – Naguib Mahfouz

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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who werent there. – George Santayana

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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. – John Cleese

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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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