I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road. . … - Amin Maalouf - Quotesmemo.com

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Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

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Amin Maalouf

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road. . . all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

Come, Country, Prayer, Prayers, Son

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Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

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Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

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The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

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Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

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My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.

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Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

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Pope Pius XI

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Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and accordingly, as if it were for charity to veil the violation of justice which lawmakers not only tolerated but at times sanctioned, wanted the whole care of supporting the poor committed to charity alone.

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You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

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