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To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.
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Guide Knowledge Life
No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.
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Humanity Independence Level Prosperity Rich Service Subject
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
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Face Myself Necessary Understand
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
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Guide Life Reliable Science
A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation’s future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.
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Assurance Myself Nation Place Print Right Youth
Peace at home, peace in the world.
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Home Peace World
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.
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Book Direction Heaven Life Principle See World
He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
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Catch People Rule Trap Upload Weakness
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
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Citizenship Greedy Myself Order
Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.
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Attack Command Death Man Order Ourselves Place Time
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
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Freedom Myself Politics Recieve
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
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Death Independence Live Nation
Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.
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Concept Country Judgement Knowledge People Reason
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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Consume Goodness Light Teacher Way
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
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Blood Friendship Hero Live Lost Peace Yourself
Victory is for those who can say “Victory is mine”. Success is for those who can begin saying “I will succeed” and say “I have succeeded” in the end.
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Beginning End Myself People Victory