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21 " What I and so many others failed to realize was that something had settled over our country, something hazy and black, and it was muffling our speech and stopping us from seeing the world clearly. "
― Ayşe Kulin , Without a Country
22 " You can think of faith simply as a kind of path from your heart to God. "
23 " Turkish, Armenian, or German, you men are all the same. "
24 " Ah, Gerhard. Life is lonely enough as it is. Don't you leave me, too. "
25 " ...Life can scatter even the closest family. What's important is that we each find a place where we can be happy. "
26 " Had she and Korhan just spent six wonderful years together, or had she let six years slip through her fingers? She couldn't decide. "
27 " Go like water and return like water. "
28 " sipping sour cherry–infused vodka "
29 " Dine siyaset mikrobunun bulaşması, dini bir sevgi aracı olmaktan çıkardı, ne yazık ki! "
30 " They live in Turkey. Turks should speak Turkish,” the man said. “But their mother tongue is Greek!” “They should be more Turkish.” “Maybe you should be more human! "
31 " Over the next five months, he solicited the views of politicians, professors, state administrators, students, and even clerks. "
32 " He conducted exhaustive written surveys to assess the abilities of the faculty members. "
33 " They’re inventing common enemies to try and unite the religious factions. Anti-Semitism has come out of the shadows. "
34 " The courses were overly burdensome and yet oddly unfocused. The same lesson plans had been in use for fifty years. No serious research of any kind was being conducted. Even worse, the relationships among faculty members were actively antagonistic. "
35 " The Gazi had observed firsthand that poorly educated military leaders led to bureaucratic inefficiency and defeats on the battlefield, "
36 " Obedience is unquestioning submission to authority; discipline requires adherence to certain essential rules and duties, yes, but one is permitted—nay, encouraged—to question those very rules and duties. "
37 " There are two things I ask of you. One is to learn to forgive those you love. Be prepared. You will be called on one day to forgive. "
38 " The future leaders of this republic must be educated in accordance with the latest scientific and pedagogical methods, regardless of gender. This will create a generation that is intellectually disciplined, capable of critical thinking, and skilled in problem solving. "
39 " How foolish and how human, he thought, to believe that trouble will never come calling, right up until it knocks on your own door. "
40 " Call me an idealist, but I still believe that if more people understood what war was, there’d be less of it. "