Omar Saif Ghobash Quotes

#1. Life is diverse. Living is to live with difference. Anyone telling you that difference should be stamped out is stamping out life. Those people insisting that there are black and white answers to the difficult questions are stamping out the diversity that is inherent in life.

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#2. There is no knowledge that is wrong. Only knowledge that is difficult, troubling, enlightening, liberating, and intoxicating.

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#3. This is the primary argument to make to those who say that one should read only the Quran, for it has all knowledge within it. It has the key message of Allah. But even the Prophet is widely known for having encouraged us to go, even to China, in the search for knowledge. This

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#4. Ask yourself the question: If I don't do it, who will? If you find the answer is no one will do it, then do it yourself.

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#5. But questions have the odd habit of reappearing.

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#6. Freedom is a gift to use your will and perception to impose a moral structure on yourself. Without the freedom to choose our path, we are morally crippled.

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#7. I do not just buy books; I collect them with the idea that they fit into a pattern of knowledge.

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#8. I want you to be on the lookout for people who talk with unerring conviction and authority about what others should do. Especially about what others should do. These are the people who always seem to lead us into some kind of trouble.

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#9. The ultimate truth is that we are individuals who can choose to respect ourselves, and others, with or without regard to bloodline, wealth, tribe, or community.

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#10. I came to understand that the perception that freedom is decadence is a fictitious one. Freedom is a good that is preserved and defended because it places individual responsibility at the heart of society.

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#11. Or are we only fully accepting of our faith when we are free to reject it, as is possible in Western liberal democracies?

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#12. What you are beginning to understand is that these decisions are all directly connected to the way in which we picture how you will be equipped to deal with the world around you when you are finally free of us. I smile as I write these words. Believe me, we want you to be free and self-reliant. We

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#13. As long as we do not recognize the individual within our societies, we will not be able to live with humanity outside of our faith. In

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