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"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."

"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."

"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."
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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."

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."

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

"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."

"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."

"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."
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