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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. Khalil Gibran

Love Heart Sacrifice Temple Sanctify To Love Body

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. Khalil Gibran

Enemies Our Counsel Another Reduce Turn Number

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. Khalil Gibran

People Advice Resolved Others Pleases Most Them Ask Act Who

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. Khalil Gibran

Me People Water Drinking Spring Easier Would Would-Be Tossed Well Dry Pass Were Than Stones Which Avoid Flowing Thirsty

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling? Nadine Labaki

War Family Women Seen Lost Keep Smiling Living Ways Absurd Smiling How Mothers Wonder Children Many Keep

Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Day Suffering People Way Worst Would Would-Be Minor More Part Make Policies Reduce Convenient Straightforward Commuting Many Widespread

Paul Krugman is a danger to society! Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Society Danger Paul

My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together. Rabih Alameddine

Together Enemy World Father Trenches Saw Eye Able Rarely Only Both Could Adult Football Share Particularly However Were Cup Up Growing Growing Up World Cup Traverse Differently Spectacles

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that. Amal Clooney

You Woman Own Lying Way Find Beach Know Another Protest Another Woman Being Want Might Your Away

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from. Amal Clooney

Country Athens London Horseman Head Between Came His Celebrated Greece Cannot Body Means Separated Whole Appreciated

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative. Amal Clooney

Learning Abroad Studying Transformative

Democracy is dead in the Maldives. Amal Clooney

Democracy Dead

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it. Amal Clooney

Dissent Locking Does Reduce Up Fosters

I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis. Amal Clooney

Community Think More Done Ashamed Should International International Community

My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon. Amal Clooney

War Hope Arabic Born Name Lebanon Means

To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood. Ameen Rihani

Soul World Our Mood Enter Would Temperament About Mystic Take Wire Allow Sure Often Refuge Much Less Help Pose

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous. Ameen Rihani

Value Deficiencies Indeed States Futile Would Would-Be Various Purpose Individuals Import Underlying Without Always Sublime Impulse Forms Them Working

The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die. Ameen Rihani

Today Time History Man Important Vice Versa Once Hidden Significance Must See Seed Trivial Never Develop Individuals Most Understand Versa Die Nations The History Of The Most Important Vice Which Who Street Things

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised. Ameen Rihani

Character Little Things First Our Self Sure Reveal Real Truly Trumpet Traits Essential Real Self Which Little Themselves Things Pose

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly. Ameen Rihani

Government Balance Society Properly Only Rod May Just Which

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism. Ameen Rihani

Other End Bolshevism

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