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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."

"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."

"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."

"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."
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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."

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

"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."

"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."

"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."

"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."

"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."

"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."

"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
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