"The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection."

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Source : "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

Ibn Khaldun

#Successful Quotes #Effort Quotes #Greek Quotes

“I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.”
“A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection - unless you lie - in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.”
“If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.”
“God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth”
“In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.”
“Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.”
“It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.”

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