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For a man without the pride of being the center of things the end of his collective whole is supreme, and being, like all other individuals, so small a part of that, he despises himself.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

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