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Michael Conniff
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(Bonus Points for not stooping to a comma after “But” Rule #19 The word is pun into quotes here and not italics, because he actually wrote it.)
“Nothing is held to be lawful or right among the Persians unless it is first ratified by a priest.”34 Without such discipline”
― In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
― In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
“the question that Karp wanted to explore—what turns ordinary citizens into perpetrators of genocide and accessories to mass murder? And Karp’s timing was fortuitous”
― The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
― The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
“ran into two psychologists who were teaching this idea of transformational therapy”
― Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 Legendary Players
― Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 Legendary Players
“The philosopher Jürgen Habermas was arguably the preeminent European public intellectual of the postwar era”
― The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
― The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
“If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information from distant places and then the world would be a more peaceful place. He had been perfectly serious. That illusion had lasted from age forty-nine to age sixty-five.”
― News of the World
― News of the World
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