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“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
Following the Equator • Mark Twain““Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?””
Republic • Plato“As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing useful, and whether the society could support the necessary specialist scribes.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius““It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military, or based on oil-is considered no more than legitimate vengeance. And there can be no doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades, deeply felt by the Arabs, even today, as an act of rape””
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes • Amin Maalouf