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"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
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"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."
"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
"We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race."
"You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China."
"And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that."
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"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
"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."
"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
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