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"“It may be that the gods have a taste for cruel japes. Or perhaps there are no gods. Perhaps none of this had any meaning. I’d ask the High Septon, but the last time I went to him he told me that no man can truly understand the workings of the gods. Perhaps he should try sleeping under a tree.”" — Aug 11, 2024 01:56PM
"“It may be that the gods have a taste for cruel japes. Or perhaps there are no gods. Perhaps none of this had any meaning. I’d ask the High Septon, but the last time I went to him he told me that no man can truly understand the workings of the gods. Perhaps he should try sleeping under a tree.”" — Aug 11, 2024 01:56PM
Interbreeding Theory, when Sapiens spread into Neanderthal lands, Sapiens bred with Neanderthals until the two populations merged. If this is the case, then today’s Eurasians are not pure Sapiens. They are a mixture of Sapiens and
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“when the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, visited India in 1921, he pointed to a few magnificent buildings, cars and electrical installations and remarked to an Indian accompanying him, ‘We have given you everything here in India! What is it you don’t have?’ And the lowly Indian replied, gently: ‘Self-respect, sir.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“They instigated a Muslim nobleman, Nawab Khwaja Salimullah of Dacca, to start a rival organization in 1906 for his co-religionists alone, the Muslim League.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“Amartya Sen has explained, there has never been a famine in a democracy with a free press, because public accountability ensures effective response.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“Agood part of the British case for having created India’s political unity and democracy lies in the evolution of three of democracy’s building-blocks during the colonial era: a free press, an incipient parliamentary system and the rule of law.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“As Alex von Tunzelmann noted in her history Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, when ‘the British started to define “communities” based on religious identity and attach political representation to them, many Indians stopped accepting the diversity of their own thoughts and began to ask themselves in which of the boxes they belonged’.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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