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Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!" — Moses · 1956I have been a stranger in a strange land. — Moses · 1405 BCBut I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. — Moses · 1405 BCHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. — Moses · 1405 BCThe evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith—only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so. — Moses · 1956Ptahhotep3 quotes
Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned... Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones. — Ptahhotep · 2375 BCBe cheerful while you are alive. — Ptahhotep · 2375 BCOne who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household. — Ptahhotep · 2375 BCEdward Said2 quotes
Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient-dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient. — Edward Said · 1978Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and a real bond with one's native place; the universal truth of exile is not that one has lost that love or home, but that inherent in each is an unexpected, unwelcome loss. Regard experiences then as if they were to disappear. — Edward Said · 1993Plotinus2 quotes
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus · 270All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another. — Plotinus · 270Amenemope1 quote
Do not set your heart on wealth…
Do not strain to seek increase,
What you have, let it suffice you.
If riches come by theft,
They will not stay the night with you….
They made themselves wings like geese,
And flew away to the sky. — Amenemope · 1075 BCAnwar Sadat1 quote
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land. — Anwar Sadat · 1978Athanasius1 quote
God became man so that man might become God. — Athanasius · 318Ptolemy1 quote
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. — Ptolemy · 168Saadia Gaon1 quote
Even women and children and those with no aptitude for speculation can attain to a complete religion, for all men are on an equal footing as far as knowledge derived from the senses is concerned. Praised be God who in his wisdom ordered things thus. — Saadia Gaon · 933