Faris Alsaleh
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In the tradition of ship captains since the Middle Ages on Old Earth, de Soya knows well that the coin of a captain’s prerogatives has two sides—almost god-like power over everyone and everything aboard one’s ship, balanced by the
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“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied—the incarnations of their respective faiths—asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”
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If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied—the incarnations of their respective faiths—asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”
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“ما أكثر ما عزوت لنفسي جرائم لم أقترفها قط ، كي لا أحرج الغير فى مجلسي”
― رمل وزبد
― رمل وزبد
“If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.”
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“If I should die,” said I to myself, “I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“—It is hard to die. Harder to live.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
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