You want to aim a superpowerful radio beam at the red sun. Have you thought about the political symbolism of such an experiment?”
“What is needed is a study that captures the complexity of the camps without fragmenting, and sets them into their wider political and cultural context without becoming reductive. But how to write such a history of the KL?”
― KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
― KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
“The social media maven spends his or her time creating a self-caricature, a much happier and more photogenic version of real life. People subtly start comparing themselves to other people’s highlight reels,”
― The Road to Character
― The Road to Character
“Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“For the Ottomans, the path to international security ran through an alliance with one of the Great Powers.”
― The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War
― The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War
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