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"'Marfua To’xtaxo’jaeva makes a similar argument about the results of
the Soviet modernization program: that while it did create equality in
work and education (those areas that benefit society), discourses and
gender roles remained largely unchanged in the Soviet period.'" — Nov 17, 2025 01:29PM
"'Marfua To’xtaxo’jaeva makes a similar argument about the results of
the Soviet modernization program: that while it did create equality in
work and education (those areas that benefit society), discourses and
gender roles remained largely unchanged in the Soviet period.'" — Nov 17, 2025 01:29PM
“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
― The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”
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