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Ameen Rihani (Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī) (Arabic: أمين الريحاني‎ / ALA-LC: Amīn ar-Rīḥānī; 1876 – 1940), was a Lebanese American writer, intellectual and political activist. He was also a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America, and an early theorist of Arab nationalism. He became an American citizen in 1901.

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I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

Government, Member, Mind, Reformation, Soul, State

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Constantly, Increases, Matter, Men, Strength, Training

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

East, Fire, Light, Today

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

Assistance, Assisting, Assists, Capable, Causes, Persons

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

Everywhere, Form, Individual, Like, Obligatory, Rights

When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.

Depth, Differ, Height, High, Way

. . . However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.

Intellectual, Revolution, Natural, Evolution, Education

Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

Cousin, Genius, Open, Pioneers, Works, World

The broader and higher aspects of life are international. . . . There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

Aspects, Aspects Of Life, Common, Goal, Towards

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

Pioneers, Highways, Nations, Become, Pioneer, Footsteps

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.

War, Golf, Play, Fool, Plays, Jersey

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Analyze, Independence, Leads, Men, Self, Thinking

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

Bends, Heart, Understanding, Yield, Yields

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

Airplane, East, Philosophies, Philosophy, Religions

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

Denomination, Denominations, Form, Homeland, Order

If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

Conspiring, Good, Inspire, People, Preaching, Spiritual

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

Face, Faces, Patience, Perseverance, Want

The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.

Clear, Holds, Perseverance, Spirit, Success

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

Assuming, Embrace, Renounce, Whatsoever, Wheresoever

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

Doe, Ideals, Indestructible, Like, Matter, Mutable

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