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“I’ll tell you what surprises me.”
“Is it my eyes? Is it my lips?”
“It’s your cat,” he said.
“I don’t have a cat.”
“That’s what surprises me.”
“You think I’m a cat person.”
“I see you with a cat, definitely. There ought to be a cat slipping along the walls.”
― Falling Man
“Is it my eyes? Is it my lips?”
“It’s your cat,” he said.
“I don’t have a cat.”
“That’s what surprises me.”
“You think I’m a cat person.”
“I see you with a cat, definitely. There ought to be a cat slipping along the walls.”
― Falling Man
“People of color may also hold prejudices and discriminate against white people, but they lack the social and institutional power that transforms their prejudice and discrimination into racism; the impact of their prejudice on whites is temporary and contextual.”
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“Indeed, even in the Middle Ages, there were many more Christians in Asia than there were in Europe.50 After all, Baghdad is closer to Jerusalem than to Athens, while Teheran is nearer the Holy Land than Rome, and Samarkand is closer to it than Paris and London. Christianity’s success in the east has long been forgotten.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
“Uzun bir sessizlikten sonra, Düşünsenize, dedim, başparmak, ortaparmak, işaretparmağı, serçeparmak. Hepsinin adı mantıklı.
Adını bilmese de insan, öyle dermiş sanki. Belki serçeparmak değil küçük parmak denirdi. Ama öylesi de doğru. Yüzükparmağı gibi uydurma değil, sanki yüzük bir tek o parmağa takılırmış ya da yüzük icat olmadan önce o parmak yokmuş gibi.”
― Burası Tekin Değil
Adını bilmese de insan, öyle dermiş sanki. Belki serçeparmak değil küçük parmak denirdi. Ama öylesi de doğru. Yüzükparmağı gibi uydurma değil, sanki yüzük bir tek o parmağa takılırmış ya da yüzük icat olmadan önce o parmak yokmuş gibi.”
― Burası Tekin Değil
“It is ironic, therefore, that while Constantine is famous for being the Emperor who laid the basis for the Christianisation of Europe, it is never noted that there was a price to pay for his embrace of a new faith: it spectacularly compromised Christianity’s future in the east. The”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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