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When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language. ”
The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory. ”
Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together. ”
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries. ”
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial. ”
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings. ”
The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation. ”
My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness. ”
Football, like no other sport, creates a sense of unity, equality, and inclusion. All of these are at the heart of my vision for a changing Gabon. ”
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. ”