"Why after my years of education, after studying the secular civilization and the socialization process, should I decent to the level of common people, I will make them rise to my level, let me not resemble them, they should resemble me!"
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Diary entry in Karlsbad on 6 July 1918; also quoted in Ataturk: Founder of Modern Turkey, a biographical documentary about Atatürk
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