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“To the threshold of the century…three hundred years had gone by since the discovery of America, and in the great changes of that period oceanic enterprise had been a causative agent at least as important as any other. The rate of change, slow at first, had steadily increased, but it was still in reasonable proportion to the duration of man’s life and the capacity of his mind. Since then the rate has quickened out of proportion to that factor fixed by Nature. Man now is born in one world and dies in another, alien altogether to the world of his formative years. It is stimulating if unhealthy, and where it will lead, none knows. But for good or ill it is the process of modern history. J.A. Williamson, 1938.”
― Beyond Madagascar: A Bold & Consequential Voyage
― Beyond Madagascar: A Bold & Consequential Voyage
“I was once asked: ‘Are you an Islamophobe?’ And the answer is no. What I am is an Islamismophobe, or better say an anti-Islamist, because a phobia is an irrational fear, and it is not irrational to fear something that says it wants to kill you.”
― The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
― The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
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