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Habits are qualities of the soul.
Ibn Khaldun / Historian
Quality
Habit
Soul
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Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.
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Gains
Islam
Obligation
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Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.
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Men
Ancestor
Children
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Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right
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Geometry
Math
Mind
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People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.
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Ignorant
Interest
People
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The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.
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Drop Of Water
Past
Water
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Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
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Men
Acquiring Knowledge
Ignorant
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Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.
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Government
Injustice
Institutions
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All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
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Systematic
Writing
Written
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Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.
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Organized
Responsible
Wealthy
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Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
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Civilization
Goal
Mean
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At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
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Freedom
Assessment
Yield
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The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.
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Greek
People
Powerful
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Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.
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Animal
Dumb
Slavery
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He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.
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Century
Leader
Path
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Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.
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Defeat
Psychological
Victim
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The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.
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Effort
Greek
Successful
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Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.
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Teacher
Philosophical
Philosophy
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The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained.
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History
Doe
Rural Life
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Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.
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Animal
Civilization
Dumb
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When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.
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Wisdom
Civilization
Rights
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Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.
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Errors
Fall
Math
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If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.
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Prejudice
Receiving
Soul
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The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.
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Matter
Practice
Students
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