Mehmet Murat ildan quote: "Düşünmek kutsaldır; bırak her birey özgürce düşünsün! Düşündüğünü ifade etmek kutsaldır; bırak her birey düşüncesini özgürce ifade etsin! Eğer bunu yaparsan vicdanlı ve ahlaklı bir insan olduğunu kanıtlarsın! Eğer bunu yapmazsan sadece kendinin bir faşist olduğunu deklare edersin!"

He who desperately looks for a miracle must be either a blind or an ignorant person because everywhe...
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There are millions reasons to live and not even a single reason to die! You must protect your life -...
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Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, becau...
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Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!
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Countries who don’t have brave prosecutors and fearless judges will instead have plenty of thieves...
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If your shout is local, only your village will hear you; if your whisper is universal, the whole wor...
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When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!
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Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book...
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We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of min...
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Make friends with the path you are travelling on; then, you feel less lonely
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If you keep returning to the painful paths, may be because you find the painless paths painful and p...
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History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!
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Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create intere...
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When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better...
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When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!
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Infinite horizons belong to those who have infinite imagination!
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Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the ...
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Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going t...
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Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a g...
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Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a littl...
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Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and...
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You want the light shine on you or you want to be the light itself? You want to get wisdom from a wi...
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Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean t...
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You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wis...
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Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet la...
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Wise man’s mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost wit...
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Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural pow...
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In action is the worst action of human beings!
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He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!
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Inaction is the worst action of human beings!
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Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!
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The best present for a child is to show him the path of having a courage! And what is this path? It ...
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How important things you will achieve in life will be determined by how many times you shall act bra...
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We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way;...
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Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the t...
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Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freed...
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What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle sm...
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To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all...
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If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there:...
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By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because ge...
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In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!
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A student who is becoming better than his master is a bright student; but a student who is becoming ...
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Knock the door or ring the bell but don't ever push it! Be gentle!
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Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to ...
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For a cheerful mind, sun never sets; for a cheerless mind, sun never rises!
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A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow!
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For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!
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If you love the rain very much, you feel the warmth of the sunshine in your heart while it is heavil...
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It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun i...
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To stand strongly, we need three legs: Two legs and a work that will keep us busy!
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A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!
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The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!
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When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!
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The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!
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The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government i...
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In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! W...
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To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!
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All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! ...
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If you try to be consistent, you tie yourself to a rock and you restrict your own movements! Don’t...
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To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!
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For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!
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Careful minds build durable buildings; careless minds build rotten buildings!
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Not only try but try your best!
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The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!
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Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way o...
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If you do not build bridges, precipices become your fate!
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When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at...
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Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you somethin...
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You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much m...
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To lose something is an illusion because everything we own is just a mirage! And you, you cannot los...
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One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of th...
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If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will ...
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What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an ...
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Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people!
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An autumn forest is such a place that once entered you never look for the exit!
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When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!
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You don’t need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use eve...
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Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism; but romanticism when others are around is suspiciou...
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Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom w...
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Don’t hide yourself from the world and don’t let the world hide himself from you!
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Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, gua...
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There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shin...
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The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl i...
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There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country,...
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Narrow streets are beautiful because you are closer to the realities!
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In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!
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If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haun...
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If you don’t like speaking much, wear red clothes; they will speak on behalf of you!
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A pigeon flying with the ravens will start to caw!
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A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven...
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Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep ca...
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Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people...
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Peaceful roads are for the unpeaceful minds; restful attracts the unrestful; the empty streets of tr...
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Being peaceful is being angel!
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Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low cultur...
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The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglie...
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Let the boundlessness be your boundary!
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In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the c...
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Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!
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No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!
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Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!
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The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
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Love is a magical shelter where you will feel yourself safe beneath it!
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Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!
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Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!
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No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting you...
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Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the ...
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Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, t...
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You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!
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Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions t...
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If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!
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If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
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Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten ...
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Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has...
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Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being�...
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If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you wi...
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Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you comp...
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You can save hundred words with just one look!
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When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easi...
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Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!
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You lost your way in the darkness? Don’t panic; that will be your best light!
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When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you...
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There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical sup...
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Sheep all together, cars all together, people all together, crows all together, ants all together! E...
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Don’t perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and ...
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Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires...
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What is the size of this universe? The size of this universe is whatever the size of your dreams!
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There is something more horrible than to live with an unhappy person and that is to live with someon...
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Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!
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Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questi...
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What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action need...
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The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Mode...
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Türkiye’nin arzulanan modernleşmesi ve rasyonelleşmesi Atatürk’ün Modern Türkleri iktidara...
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The oldest tree on earth has seen 5067 New Year; the oldest man, only 122 New Year! Can you see how ...
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Let me tell you what to forget in the New Year: Forget about the luck; concentrate on the insistent ...
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Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky shee...
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Stay away from ‘it-can’t-be-done-people’ because they are often mistaken! All you need is to h...
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When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret ...
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Observe your path ahead carefully; see the dangers and the opportunities! By this way you can write ...
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There are two kinds of politicians on Earth: Those who expand the freedoms and those who restrict th...
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Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is again...
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The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!
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If you have good friends, don’t look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just t...
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They say human is a thinking animal; in times of war, don’t even use the adjective ‘thinking’!
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What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death; the silence of the debris; the silence ...
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Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them a...
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The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; ...
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It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the b...
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Mystery is a genius teacher: It forces its students to think thoroughly and to ask many questions! T...
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Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!
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If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away...
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Visit your life, because you are spending too much time in others life! Visit yourself!
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Are you comfortable? That’s good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And th...
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Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!
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If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man ...
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Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!
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Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!
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To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!
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Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him f...
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Her milletin tarihinde vahşi atlar gibi davranma, özgürlüğünü yok etmeye çalışan her türl...
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Zaman gelecek ve ata binmek bütün bir toplum tarafından ciddi bir hayvan hakları ihlali olarak g...
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Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!
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Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
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Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the ...
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There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable c...
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Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain’t any saviour but ...
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On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!
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Ningún buen fin existe para un dictador!
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Cuando un dictador muere, aumenta el oxígeno del mundo!
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Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! ...
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Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come acros...
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No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!
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If you close your eyes in a park you will realise that everything you see around is at the same time...
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Your most precious journey is the journey to your own mistakes and so you can face them!
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Oh, poor human! You have so many dreams, but so short period of time! You are living in the ocean of...
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In this meaningless universe, we need saviours to cling to the existence and music is one of our bes...
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If your mind is not in the present time, your body will look like a dead body, cold and insensible!
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Most people give up their dreams when they see few dark clouds on the horizon! Cowards can never rea...
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Don’t challenge everything which challenges you! Don’t take every funny challenge serious and do...
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Leave your limiting-self just like a snake shedding its skin so that you can go beyond your own fron...
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To learn how to live twice in one life, you must get to know the people who lived twice in one life!
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Зимата е мъртва,
пролетта е луда,
лятото е весело,<...
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Las mentes necesitan lo inusual, porque lo inusual tiene el poder de sacudir la mente!
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Dear pious fellow! Our greatest hope for you is that one day you will understand that you have no en...
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We will manage to survive in this infinite universe because we humans have infinite hopes!
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Nobody can give up rain and nobody can give up love because the former makes this life possible and ...
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If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptines...
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You never pretend when you are all alone with yourself!
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When you visit a country, visit the forgotten artisans of the narrow streets because they are the on...
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With the power of the morning energy, you can defeat the whole problems of the whole day! This shini...
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What makes a man great is all the good things he left behind and as for Atatürk, thinking generatio...
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As long as you know in which station and at what hour you should wait, which train to take and if ne...
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Autumn leaf waits for autumn wind to reach the unreachable places; wise mind waits for silence for t...
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Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as w...
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Treat every natural beauty you met as if you see them for the first and last time!
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Silence and creativity are very close friends!
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Whenever you enter the crowds, keep your own personality, keep your own behaviour, keep your own min...
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Sometimes it is wonderful to be unsuccessful because through our failure, we enable people to try ne...
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When iron and carbon come together, there emerges steel! To be something stronger and better, you mu...
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Man who is travelling on a train has a much more chance to be wiser than the man who is sitting on a...
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