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عزاءات الفلسفة: كيف تساعدنا الفلسفة في الحياة

by Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)

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شبه جزيرة العرب والصراع الدولي عليها : منذ القرن الرابع حتى ظهور الإسلام

by شكران خربوطلي

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The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

by Peter H. Wilson

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“The place where...knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.”
― Fred Alan Wolf, Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds

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“When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.”
― Guillaume Musso, Will You Be There?

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“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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