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In an early discussion on facebook, following my retweet of @AskLEBGov tweet:

“Don’t ask what ur country can do for u, but what u can do for ur country “JFK tweet with #AskLEBGov, we will channel it to the Gov!

found here, my friend Rihab El Hélou drew my attention that this quotation was in fact created by Khalil Gibran our famous Lebanese Writer and philosopher 36 years before JFK!

Quoting Rihab:

Actually, Khalil Gibran published the above saying in his 1925 work titled “The New Frontier”, Thirty-six years before President Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Address.

“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert.” Khalil Gibran

I’m not pretty sure how can we correct this, what we can do is to circulate it!

We are great Lebanese! And I’m proud of that! Who will be the next Gibran? The Next JFK?