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The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk A World View of Criminal Justice (2005)

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Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations (1993)

We are friends now, and we will be much closer friends in the future.

Religions have been basis of the tyranny of kings and sultans.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Ataturk (1944)

Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy.

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

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

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.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

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

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

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

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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