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"In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms."
"As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being."
"People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs."
"We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality."
"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."
"We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems."
"Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere."
"In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner."
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