"The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation."

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Source : Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

Ameen Rihani

#Pioneers Quotes #Highways Quotes #Nations Quotes

“All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.”
“As the Japanese Zen masters say, â€œDon't seek the truth; just drop your opinionsâ€. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.”
“Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in the Philippines during the Marcos overthrow, and I was up on what was called Smokey Mountain. I think it's gone now, but it was a garbage dump with a bunch of people living on it. I was talking to Bob on the phone, and I told him, "I'm a humorist. I can't write about this." And Bob told me to let my style be dictated by the subject, to take what I saw and write about it in the tone that it requires.”
“We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.”
“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.”
“We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.”
“If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.”
“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”

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