"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing."

Holbrook Jackson, English Writer

Habit, Habits, Will

"You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor."

Chris LeDoux, American Musician

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"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

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"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."

Rich Little, Canadian Comedian

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two."

Balthazar Getty, American Actor

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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."

Nation

"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."

People

"The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself."

Thought

"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."

Death

"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."

Man

"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."

Poetry

"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."

Change

"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."

Cooperation

"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."

Language

"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."

Religion