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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild

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

Other quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

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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Society
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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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Home
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Naguib Mahfouz
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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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Naguib Mahfouz
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Change
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Change

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you dont think there will be change, whether you want it to or not. – Julius Erving

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Change

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Change

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. – Edward de Bono

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Change

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Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. – Mary McLeod Bethune

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Faith

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry

There are rich counsels in the trees. – Herbert P. Horne

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Trees

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. – George Gurdjieff

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Ritual, Ceremony