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I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.
Ameen Rihani
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Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
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Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
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If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.
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We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.
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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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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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In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.
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No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .
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I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes
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Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.
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My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.
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The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.
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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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I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
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Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
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My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.
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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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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
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Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
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I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
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I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
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Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.
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