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“And, most precious of all, you will have Time—that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.”
― Lost Horizon
― Lost Horizon
“That little spark of life, if I should do my duty, should be fanned into a flame, whose light should blaze across the world, and bless, and brighten it.”
― Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
― Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
“And as if blowing it up, flooding it, and keeping it behind the klyon wasn't enough, State Security special forces patrolled the area until 1989. Some locals say there was an additional 'live fence' of thousands of vipers specially bred for this purpose by Uzbeks along the southern Black Sea, under something called decree number 56. Why Uzbeks? Why vipers? Did decree 56 read: 'Let us fulfil the five-year snake plan in one year'?”
― Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
― Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
“Marmaduke's theory was that, as he couldn't understand Christianity, it was safe to premise that people whose religion was a mixture of degraded Buddhism and devilworship couldn't understand it either. So he founded a Buddhist mission, to teach 'em their own religion.”
― Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
― Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
“This last report is particularly intriguing insofar as it implies that Muhammad received his call to prophethood not—as the most famous account would have it—atop Mount Hira occupied in prayerful meditation and acts of pious devotion but while shepherding flocks for wealthy Meccans.”
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
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