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“During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.”
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“Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.”
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“There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.”
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“But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain”
Source : Patrick Modiano (2014). “Dora Bruder”, p.10, Univ of California Press
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“You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.”
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“Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.”
Source : Carter G. Woodson, Charles H. Wesley (2008). “The Story of the Negro Retold”, p.427, Wildside Press LLC
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“I would not think to touch the sky with two arms”
Source : Sappho, Henry Thornton Wharton (1895). “Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation”
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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
