"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."

Habit, Habits, Intellectuals, Thinking, World

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"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."

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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

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