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“But if some of the pieces make you laugh, I will be happy, and if they persuade even one person to try reading Plato who otherwise wouldn't have done so then I will know I have not wasted my time.”

Book:The New Adventures of Socrates: an extravagance

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“June’s clients did not have the patience to deal with problems or the personal courage and energy to find solutions on their own. What they did have was an almost endless supply of capital. With that capital, June’s clients could hire people to solve any problem with minimal effort. That is what June did; she solved problems by the process of elimination.”

Problems Spy Assassin The 1

Book:Loves Deception

Source: Loves Deception

“Capitalism did not make the break from feudalism and slavery that we thought it did, it harnessed and bridled those things for corporate profits in the pursuit of the 1% monocracy.”

Capitalism Slavery Feudalism Anonymous The One Percent The 1 Corporate Profits

Author:Anonymous, @AnonymousLyWise

“Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.”

Football Battle Win Won War Wounds

Book:Scapemaker

Source: Scapemaker

“Though the drugs were prescribed to treat the pain of physical wounds, the guys also used them to bury the emotional ones that doctors largely neglected.”

Addiction Neglect Ptsd War Wounds Opioid Dependence

Book:Alive Day: A Memoir

Source: Alive Day: A Memoir

“Nederlandse politici hebben serieus geblunderd en de woede van de Turkse president Ergogan op de hals gehaald door geen Turkse ministers toe te laten om te komen spreken voor Turkse Nederlanders. Die diplomatieke botsing had vermeden kunnen worden indien Rutte & Co een betere inschatting van Erdogan hadden gemaakt. Erdogan is uitermate bedreven in opruiende politiek. Indien Nederlandse politici iets meer bedreven waren geweest in psychologisch inzicht dan in stemmengraaierij hadden ze kunnen weten dat de weigering hen als een boomerang in het gezicht zou vliegen. Het is inderdaad ondemocratisch om iemand, ook al is die autocraat die in eigen land democratie en pevsvrijheid monddood maakt, de vrijheid van spreken te beletten. Je kan niet toestaan dat zijn tegenstanders wèl spreekrecht hebben en hij niet. Natuurlijk steven je dan af op gewelddadig protest. Hoeveel slimmer waren de Fransen om een Turkse minister wél spreekrecht te geven: geen haan die er om kraaide. En als De Roover van NVA zich uit de naad wringt om vurig het spreekverbod te bepleiten, dan bewijst hij dat hij enkel een Vlaams Belang Light is zoals Rutte een light-versie van Wilders is.”

Erdogan Turkije Turken Mark Rutte Nederlandse Turken Geert Wilders Jean Pierre Van Rosselm Turkse Nederlanders

Author:Jean Pierre Van Rossem

“Die Demokratie ist nur der Zug, auf den wir aufsteigen, bis wir am Ziel sind. Die Moscheen sind unsere Kasernen, die Minarette unsere Bajonette, die Kuppeln unsere Helme und die Gläubigen unsere Soldaten.”

Religion Islam Erdogan Kultur Demokratie Erdoğan Türkei Islamisierung

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

“Moderate Islam is a Western fantasy. As Turkey’s then-Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in 2007: ‘These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.’ And while there are moderate and more secular Muslims, I am hardly concerned with them. Nor am I compelled to applaud them. I do not have to pat on the back every Muslim who does not want to kill me. I expect that. That is my bar. The idea that one should praise them speaks to the soft bigotry of low expectations when it comes to Western dealings with Muslims. It’s just absurd.”

Erdogan Moderate Islam

Book:FATWA: Hunted in America

Source: FATWA: Hunted in America

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