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… if you must know, I am, of course, by education and by conviction, a Shiite Muslim. I am very much a man of faith.

— Reza Pahlavi

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The Iranian youth keep defending their right to live their age and the epoch in which they are born; that is to say in a world flourished by science and learning, and not mourning and martyrdom.

Those who believe they speak with the absolute authority of Allah demand absolute submission.

How can assured destruction deter those who glorify self-destruction and call it martyrdom?

It is up to the Iranian people to say what role I should play.

As long as this regime will exist, none of the main world problems, peace between Israelis and Palestinians, religious fanaticism, terrorism and the proliferation of WMDs will be able to be solved.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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