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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
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Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.
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Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
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Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
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I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.
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Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
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You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.
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The supreme guide in life is knowledge.