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I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.

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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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Arabia
Write
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If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.
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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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Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die it only undergoes a change.
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An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.
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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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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 renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
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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 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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Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
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