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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. - Naguib Mahfouz

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. – 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

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Freedom
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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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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Education
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. – Pearl S. Buck

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark

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I think you have to be a little bit strict. You cant be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where its so dangerous for kids. So theres a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids. – Tim McGraw

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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love. – Joyce Maynard

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