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The increasing Pahlavi power in the 1970s ironically reduced Iran's dependency on the United States at a time when Iranian public perceived US influence to be at its maximum.

این نظام، این نظام واحد برای همه چیزها، را نه خدا و نه هیچ بشری خلق کرده است؛ این نظام آتشی است همواره زنده که بوده است و خواهد بود، در بخش‌هایی شعله می‌گیرد و در بخش‌هایی خاموش می‌شود.
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The arrested growth of the private sector, the widening gap between living standards in the city versus the countryside, and the rise of the state's reliance on independent income through monopolies on commodities and oil revenue were the most significant legacies of the first Pahlavi era. While the state became less dependent on its citizens and the meager revenue it could extract through taxation, it sped up ...

گذشته‌ی بی‌واسطه‌ای که تاریخ می‌نامیم، نقش ناچیزی در هنر یا ادبیات یونان باستان داشته یا اصلا نقشی نداشته است.
هیچ نویسنده‌ی یونانی پیش از اواخر سده‌ی پنجم پیش از میلاد تفاوتی را که اکنون ما بین اسطوره و تاریخ قائل‌ایم، قائل نبوده است.

بالیدن با هسیود و هومر، چنان‌که کودکان دولت‌شهرهای یونان از سده هفتم پیش از میلاد به بعد این‌گونه پرورش یافتند، از جمله به معنای آشنایی با تنگناهای اخلاقی بود، پرسش‌هایی از این نوع که اقتدار سیاسی چگونه کسب می‌شود و به خطر می‌افتد، موضوعاتی از قبیل رابطه بین فرد و گروه، حساسیت به پایه یزدان‌شناسی کنش انسان، و آگاهی از شیوه‌های مکرآمیز زبان در خلق انسان و رویدادها حتی زمانی که تجلی آن‌هاست.

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