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Umar Khan
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A late-nineteenth-century colonial-national movement thus adorned itself with a biblical coat that was powerfully attractive to Bible-reading Protestants in Great Britain and the United States, blinding them to the modernity of Zionism and
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“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
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“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
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