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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society w

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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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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Ive never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Politics
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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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Freedom
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Society
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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich

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Society

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. – Jose Saramago

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Society

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Society

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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Society

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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell – “voluntarily” sell – himself every day and hour to the “beast of property.” – Johann Most, The Beast of Property

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I dont need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform. – Darrell Issa

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I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind. – Rumi

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Rumi

So I won an Oscar. Its amazing. Ive got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. Thats it, moving on. – Kate Winslet

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amazing