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Per Christian Strøm
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“A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“No one’s ever very sure if doves and pigeons are the same bird or not.”
― Slade House
― Slade House
“The similarities with Christianity and Judaism later became a sensitive topic, which was partly dealt with by the dogma that Muammad was illiterate. This insulated him from claims that he was familiar with the teachings of the Torah and the Bible – despite near-contemporaries commenting that he was ‘learned’, and knew both the Old and New Testament.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
“Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.”
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“The history of Royal Prussia, which fell into the Polish orbit, is little known to those who approach the Prussian story from an exclusively German perspective. (The subject was actively suppressed by bans and book-burnings when the Hohenzollerns eventually took over.) Yet for 300 years this ‘Other Prussia’ flourished, not only as a separate institutional entity, but as the source of a separate political ideology and culture, based on concepts of freedom and liberty. Though the population was ethically mixed, Polish and German – with a strong German predominance in the cities – the corporate identity and fierce local patriotism of Royal Prussia digressed markedly from the values with which the name of ‘Prussia’ is usually associated.”
― Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
― Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
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