"You either have a civil society or you dont."

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Mohamed ElBaradei

#Civil Society Quotes

“It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.83, 谷月社
“If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.”
“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”
“Love is based on imagination.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.”
“What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.”
“The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.”
“Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.”

Source : "Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith". Book by Jennifer L. Holberg, March 31, 2006.

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