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“Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.”
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“It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.”
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“My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.”
Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com. 
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“As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.”
Source : "MEN Reader Meets Trinny and Susannah". Interview with Helen Tither, www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.
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“My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.”
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“If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.”
Source : "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.
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“I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.”
