واعقد المشورة مع القلب فانه ليس لك مشير انصح منه. لان نفس الرجل قد تخبر بالحق أكثر من سبعة رقباء يرقبون من موضع عال. وفي كل هذه تضرع إلى العلي ليهديك بالحق في الطريق المستقيم.
هناك من يعملون طبقاً لسياسة الممكن و المتاح و هؤلاء قد يحققون بعض التغييرات الطفيفة و هناك من يعملون طبقاً لسياسة الحلم و الثورة و هؤلاء هم من يغييرون مسار التاريخ.
And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?
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The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
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There is an intrinsic simplicity of nature and the ultimate contribution of science resides in the discovery of unifying and simplifying generalizations, rather than in the description of isolated situations–in the visualization of the simple, overall patterns rather than the analysis of patchworks.
Not I, not I. You yourselves are king. When you deemed me weak and a misruler, you yourselves were weak and misruling. And now the land fares well because it is in your will. I am but a thought in the mind of you all, and I exist not save in your actions. There is no such person as governor. Only the governed exist to govern themselves.
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The King - Khalil Gibran
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The philosopher’s soul dwells in his head, the poet’s soul is in the heart; the singer’s soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.
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The Dancer - Khalil Gibran
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
كل مملكة منقسمة على ذاتها تخرب. وكل مدينة أو بيت منقسم على ذاته لا يثبت
Ein Mensch mit und für die Andere.
I was driven by an inherent sense that a picture that revealed the true face of war would almost be an anti war photograph.
