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Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian and statesman who served and survived four dynasties before writing the Muqaddimah, a, gets quoted everywhere and sourced almost nowhere. The 5 quotes below are different: each one is checked word for word against the cited work, starting with The Muqaddimah, not copied from aggregator sites that pass misattributions along. The source is named under every line, so you can trace each quote back to the page it came from.
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On worrying you are repeating your parents' mistakes:
The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
On breaking away from family expectations:
Man is a child of the customs and the things he has become used to, not the child of his ancestors.Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
On staying quiet while a leader abuses power:
Tyranny and injustice bring about the ruin of civilization.Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
On why you cannot build something lasting alone:
Group feeling produces the ability to defend oneself, to offer opposition, to protect oneself, and to press one's claims.Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
On inheriting a family business and wondering if it will last:
The life span of a dynasty does not, as a rule, extend beyond three generations.Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah