"I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household."

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Mohamed ElBaradei

#Egypt Quotes #Class Quotes #Conservative Quotes

“The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.”

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“You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.”

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“A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.”
“Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.”
“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.”
“The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality and difference. Many people who believe rightly in universality, want, wrongly, I think, to impose their vision of the world on others. They think not just that there are universal truths but that they already know what they are. And they don't think they have anything to learn, as a result, from others. They don't converse, they try to convert.”

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“This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.”
“The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.”

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