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“Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.”
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“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.”
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“There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.”
Source : FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Dec 20, 2010
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“The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.”
Source : "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.
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“Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.”
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“Two can live as cheaply as one--if one doesn't eat the other goes naked.”
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“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”
Source : Justin Cronin (2012). “The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.352, Ballantine Books
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“We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.”