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"It is slightly ironic, at this moment in time when Jews and Muslims are shelling each other while Christians say to Muslims "if they destroy your mosques come to our churches to pray", to read about a time, during the initial rise of Islam when they kicked out Christian Rome (and Zoroastrian Persia for that matter) that Jew and Muslim both rejoiced together in throwing out the Christians from Jerusalem." Aug 03, 2014 10:51PM

 
Meetings with Rem...
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"A fascinating that treats beautiful medieval manuscripts like interview subjects. I confess I would not have picked this book up if I didn't do a degree in Medieval Studies and took up Palaeography (the art and science of reading old texts) under Professor Richard Gameson at Durham. (Also I once shook the author's hands!)" Mar 31, 2017 04:48AM

 
Divine Fury: A Hi...
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R. Buckminster Fuller
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
Buckminster Fuller

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