By Sudanese-born prolific author Amr Muneer Dahab

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In “Wisdom Highway,” translated into English from the Arabic origin by the author himself, Sudanese-born poet and essayist Amr Muneer Dahab questions ideas that people accept as standard rules for living, aiming to make individual life paths easier to navigate rather than providing rigid success formulas. He uses short, witty statements to prompt deep thought ins. In this series of posts, the prolific author shares excerpts from the book.

Week 11: What Does Opposition Mean In Politics Dictionary?

• Ingratitude is the shameful way we reward others when we forget their favors, and it is more shameful if we remember their favors and deny them.

• Life: Waiting, but we’d rather it lasts.

• Inertia: The only time off work that we would like it to elapse.

• Pessimism: A feeling we create when we can’t find anything to do, so we select a double-digit number to hold it responsible for.

• Proverb: Short words that are not free from error; we pronounce them after a circumstance, and we feel comfortable just because others have said them before.

• If some insist that life is a school, it is the one in which we forget the principles we learned in elementary schools.

• The most annoying date set for you: A person you don’t want to see.

• Familiarity: The prominent dissipator of the magic of beauty.

• Self-flagellation: The last line of self-defense.

• Logic: That concept we create to convince ourselves of the absurd that surrounds us.

• Humility: Realizing that what makes you better than others are just grants that are given to you on loan.

• Women are half of society, which governs the other half.

• In politics dictionary, opposition means the ability to say a convincing no when yes is more logical.

• Your friend: The best who tolerates you and the most bored of you.

• Prison: Where you are welcomed free for life.

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Amr Muneer Dahab is a Sudanese-born passionate essayist, literary critic and poet. An electrical engineer living in the United Arab Emirates, he juggles his professional career and writing, which has birthed so far 50 books.