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Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: ‘the English have no arbitrary dismissal,’ he noted, ‘and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or
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“But this experience taught me that our civilization cannot survive if we continue to appease the Islamists.”
― How to Be a Conservative
― How to Be a Conservative
“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“By insisting specially on the immanence of God we get introspection, self-isolation, quietism, social indifference – Tibet. By insisting specially on the transcendence of God we get wonder, curiosity, moral and political adventure, righteous indignation – Christendom. Insisting that God is inside man, man is always inside himself. By insisting that God transcends man, man has transcended himself.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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