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“We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.”
― Robert Ingersoll

“أنت بضربة موفقة واحدة تستطيع أن تغير نظام الحكم ... أما الطبائع فيلزمها وقت أطول بكثير”
― نجيب محفوظ, المرايا

“إن ما يوفر لنا بعض الطمأنينة هو إعتقادنا بأن الموت منطقى, يمارس وظيفته من خلال مقدمات ونتائج. ولكنّه كثيرا ما يداهمنا بلا نذير كزلزال”
― نجيب محفوظ, حضرة المحترم

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved, was gone, but I kept looking for her - long after I had left my own childhood behind. The poison was in the wound, you see. And the wound wouldn't heal.”
― Vladimir Nabokov