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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
Todays interpretations of religion are often backward and contradi

Todays interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. – 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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Naguib Mahfouz
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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

Category:
Freedom
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Naguib Mahfouz
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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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History
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Other Quotes from
Religion
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. Its a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Religion

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. – Ziggy Marley

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Religion

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. – Studs Terkel

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Religion

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. – Frances Wright

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Religion

Random Quotes

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a womans birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert Frost

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Age

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. – Paul Gray

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Cats

The more you make fun of yourself and dont try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you. – James Van Der Beek

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respect

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. Ive had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and Im not happy to be right in all of those cases. – David Brin

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Science