"If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people."
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"People who 'view with alarm' never build anything."
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"What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies."
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"I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . ."
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"Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children."
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"I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested."
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"I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both."
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"I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer."
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"My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
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"Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms."
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"Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there."
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"Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change."
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"Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people."
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"The only boring people I know are bored people."
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"In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite."
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"I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood."
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"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children."
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"It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?"
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"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."
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"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
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