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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States."
"It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region."
"Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered."
"The dust cannot fight against the wind, the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!"
"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."
"The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey."
"No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!"
"After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq."
"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
"Environmental pollution is not only humanity's treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth!"
"The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!"
"Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!"
"The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!"
"Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!"
"When the lost doesn't want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!"
"If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!"
"In action is the worst action of human beings!"
"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."
"Inaction is the worst action of human beings!"
"Not only persons lose their way, but nations lose their way as well!"
"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously."
"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."
"Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!"
"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."
"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
"Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man's life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!"
"A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold, the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver."
"After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy."
"By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!"
"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!"
"Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!"
"If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!"
"Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country."
"A calm night is open to all the truths."
"In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don't ever stop, don't ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don't behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!"
"If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!"
"A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!"
"Meditation is mind's vacation!"
"Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!"
"I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current."
"Tragedy is not the second face of the life, but it is the very first face of it!"
"The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!"
"If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!"
"Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!"
"When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!"
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