"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."

-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Voice Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Constitution Quotes

“My son is so fortunate, you know. He's always going to have food. Yes, my children are going to be privileged, but that's why it's so important for them to see different realities and to travel, and they do already.”
“I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.”
“Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.”
“Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.”
“The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder within nature is the most assured means by which children rediscover the joy of life.”
“We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.”
“while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!”
“But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 52, 1989.

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