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There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democratization #east #exists #middle #middle east

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #just #law #mechanic #organic

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. ↗

— Bono

#belong #better #head #i #melodies

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help. ↗

— Bono

#doing #help #know #really #seem

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#bothered #creativity #else #focusing #granted

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#brain #far #human #human brain #humour

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#come #fall #hole #invisible #know

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#feels #here #i #i am #irritated

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#creeps #go #go away #love #other

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#always #been #contains #dimension #moves