Great Throughts Treasury
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Ibn Khaldun or Khaldoun, full name Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥman bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Hadrami
Arab Historian and Philosopher
"He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far in advance of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries may pass before he is recognized as such and intelligently followed."
"The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations."