"Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries."

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Source : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press

Ameen Rihani

#Culture Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Commerce Quotes

“Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.”
“I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.”
“For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.”

Source : "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.
“No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.”

Source : Song: Same Love
“I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on manâ€™s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”
“For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.”
“I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.”
“The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.”

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