"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."

History, Society, People, Ideas

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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."

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"

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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."

Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Activist

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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."

Auguste Rodin, French Sculptor

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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

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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."

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"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."

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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."

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"Insults are the business of the court."

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"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."

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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."

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"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."

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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."

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"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."

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