Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
MEHMET MURAT ILDANThe adjective ‘decent’ and the noun ‘government’ have seldom come together in the human history!
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Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!
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Some man’s dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!
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A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!
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Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!
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If there is moonlight outside, don’t stay inside! If there is candle inside, don’t stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed!
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The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.
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Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!
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A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!
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Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!
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If you don’t like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don’t like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!
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The longest distance in the universe is not between the stars, but between the religion and the truth!
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Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
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No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!
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In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!
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Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!
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If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
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Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!
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On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!
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Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.
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Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
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The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!
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Never hesitate to open new windows in your life!
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Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you’ve got nothing left!
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Inside the fogs, you think better and thus you see better!
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God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!
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We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!
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