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True knowledge is power but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
Ameen Rihani
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Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
Essayist
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Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
Ameen Fares Rihani
Amin Rihani
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At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.
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Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.
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I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.
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What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
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We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
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Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.
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