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“The prohibition of wine is a very wise maxism and meant for the common people, being the source of disorders amongst them, but that the prophet never designed to confine those that knew how to use it with moderation.”

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“How dare you question if I fast? Or come between my God and me? How claim no lust for what's forbidden, Then veils wrap round the face that's free? My vice is wine or rakı. I drink! So what? It does no harm to you. We'll face the hair-thin bride together; Blind drunk, I'll pass, if I be true.”

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Author:Neyzen Tevfik

“I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, I will have departed quietly. where dreams dwell but The breeze will still whisper through the trees, A journey's end, a soul set free, To embrace the unknown, eternally”

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Book:THE VOICE OF HEART: SELECTED POEMS

Source: THE VOICE OF HEART: SELECTED POEMS

“For sweetness, people made and ate pekmez (grape syrup). There was nothing in Anatolia, no manufacturing industry. This brewery was an example to the peasants, it was to start the infrastructure, it was to teach what progress could bring.”

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Author:Mehmet Demirci

“The wealth of the state is as wide as the sea, and he who does not eat of it is a pig.”

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Author:Turkish Proverb

“The vulgar Turk is very different from what is spoken at court, 'tis as ridiculous to make use of the expressions commonly used in speaking to a great man or lady, as it would be to talk broad Yorkshire or Somershetshire in the drawing room.”

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Author:Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“Rarely has the West in its quasi-totality taken up such a persistent and negative image of a people (the Turks).”

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Author:Stéphane Yerasimos

“Reform isn't easy, and for me dress is the most important symbol of it, all revolutions must be takes as a whole, we've got to complete the mission.”

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Author:Özden Toker

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