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The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

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“Desde el amanecer grupos de curiosos, impulsados por el rumor, se acercaron al montón de piedras que marcaban el lugar del asesinato de Madero y Pino Suárez en el exterior de la Penitenciaría para retratarse frente a él (...) Probablemente ni ellos ni los asesinos sabían que Madero era de familia de ricos hacendados pero curaba a los peones de su hacienda con homeopatía;vestía frac en las recepciones oficiales, pero se mordía la punta de los dedos sobre los guantes blancos; que su máxima pasión como presidente eran las largas cabalgatas por el bosque de Chapultepec; que se comunicaba con los espíritus aunque no le contestaran y que casi todos los mexicanos, o al menos muchos de ellos, sabían que era más bueno que el pan.”

HistoriaRevoluciónMadero
Author:Taibo II, Paco Ignacio
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“-- kulttuurien kamppailu Huntingtonin merkityksessä tuntuu edelleen kaukaiselta mahdollisuudelta. Pikemminkin näemme samankaltaisen siirroksen, joka 500 viime vuoden mittaan päättyi miltei aina lännen eduksi. Yksi sivilisaatio heikkenee, toinen vahvistuu. Ratkaiseva kysymys ei ole, ryhtyvätkö ne taistelemaan, vaan heilahtaako heikompi heikkoudesta suoranaiseen kaaokseen.”

HistoriaSivilisaatioItäKilpailuKulttuurihistoriaLänsi
Book:Sivilisaatio : me ja muut
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“Female genital mutilation predates Islam. Not all Muslims do this, and a few of the peoples who do are not Islamic. But in Somalia, where virtually every girl is excised, the practice is always justified in the name of Islam. Uncircumcised girls will be possessed by devils, fall into vice and perdition, and become whores. Imams never discourage the practice: it keeps girls pure.”

Violence Against WomenCircumcisionFemale Genital MutilationGenital MutilationFemale Circumcision
Book:Infidel
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“As a pregnant urologist,… I was often asked by hospital workers and physicians if I was going to circumcise the baby. I always answered a simple “no” immediately, without adding the unnecessary caveat that I already knew I was carrying a girl. Knowing that in some parts of the world circumcising girls (female genital mutilation) is as common a practice as circumcising boys, I wanted to use this to spark rethinking every chance I had. When the questioner would find out I knew I was having a girl and tried to use that to explain my choice to not circumcise, I told them, “I wouldn’t circumcise if the child were a boy, either.”

AdvocacyCircumcisionBirth RightsIntactivism
Book:Reclaiming My Birth Rights
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