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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."
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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
"Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature."
"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."
"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
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"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."
"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."
"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."
"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."
"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."
"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."
"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."
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