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

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Religion
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Naguib Mahfouz
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I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. – Naguib Mahfouz

Category:
Poetry
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Naguib Mahfouz
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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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Other Quotes from
Age
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It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. – Henry A. Wallace

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Age

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I dont have the patience to learn. – David Wilkerson

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Age

After youre older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. – Helen Gurley Brown

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Age

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Age

Random Quotes

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Books

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water. – Will Steger

Category:
environmental

Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Brevity

Culture follows power. – Fareed Zakaria

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power