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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

Other quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Religion
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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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Change
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History
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No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities

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History

There arent just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. Its our evolutionary history. – James Lovelock

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History

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Simone Weil

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History

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Cant Swim. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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History

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My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasnt a man made a big difference. – Dave Mustaine

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That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. – Blaise Pascal

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In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families — that they are least two-thirds incontinent. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I dont think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out. – Hugh Jackman

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