Jan Chlapowski Söderlund

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“One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.”
― Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

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“So, with the crash of artillery, in the dark, with hatred, and fear, and reckless daring, new Russia was being born.”
― John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World

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“Here are two enormous worlds side by side; what's remarkable is how little notice they have taken of each other. If the Western and Islamic worlds were two individual human beings, we might see symptoms of repression here. We might ask, "What happened between these two? Were they lovers once? Is there some history of abuse?”
― Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

tags: islamic-world, western-world

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