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Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die it only undergoes a change.

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Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
Essayist
Historian
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
Ameen Fares Rihani
Amin Rihani
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Ideals
Dies
Change
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Matter
Mutable
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Indestructible

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To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.
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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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Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.
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Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.
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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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... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.
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Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.
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I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.
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Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
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Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
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The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.
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Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.
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Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
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The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.
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The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.
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I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
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Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
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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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... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.
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