Mohamed Ali

“You are preaching a religion that we don’t know and don’t want to be part of. Keep that religion to yourself and we will keep ours.” Those”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“The army could not have been happier. The result of the referendum was a repeated slap to the faces of those liberal powers who thought they could change the country. The army never wanted change, not with so many interests, businesses, and powerful people involved. It was a system sixty years in the making. Removing Mubarak didn’t even touch the deep state that he was a disposable face of. The Muslim Brotherhood were never serious about the revolution either. They used it simply to come into power. They had no problem with the old regime as long as they were on top of it. One”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own values to live by, and the same holds true with me. These differences give rise to disagreements, and the combination of these disagreements can give rise to even greater misunderstandings. As a result, sometimes people are unfairly criticized. This goes without saying. It’s not much fun to be misunderstood or criticized, but rather a painful experience that hurts people deeply.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.)”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running