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Ameen Rihani Quotes: Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.
         

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.


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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.



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