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Quotes by Egyptian Authors
"Without literature my life would be miserable."
"In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace."
"The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about."
"I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me."
"They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood."
"I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war."
"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
"The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador."
"In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops."
"We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence."
"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily."
"Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation."
"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."
"Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards."
"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."
"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today."
"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."
"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons."
"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."
"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization."
"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
"We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others."
"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."
"I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward."
"What was taken by force, can only be restored by force."
"If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards."
"I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way."
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
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