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“The messages coming back flooded the comm buffers with rage and sorrow, threats of vengeance and offers of aid. Those last were the hardest. New colonies still trying to force their way into local ecosystems so exotic that their bodies could hardly recognize them as life at all, isolated, exhausted, sometimes at the edge of their resources. And what they wanted was to send back help. He listened to their voices, saw the distress in their eyes. He couldn't help, but love them a little bit. Under the best conditions, disasters and plagues did that. It wasn't universally true. There would always be hoarders and price gouging, people who closed their doors to refugees and left them freezing and starving. But the impulse to help was there too. To carry a burden together, even if it meant having less for yourself. Humanity had come as far as it had in a haze of war, sickness, violence, and genocide. History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage. The one didn’t come without the other.”

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Book:Babylon’s Ashes
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“Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we would call them gameplans. A person can erect some sort of structure, some type of limited frame in which he lives, shutting himself up in that frame and not looking beyond it.”

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Book:How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
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“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when it came to the principle of the French revolution, but Burke did and said magnificent things when it came to Ireland, India and America. One of them was in some ways a revolutionary conservative and the other was a conservative revolutionary. It's important to try and contain multitudes. One of my influences was Dr Israel Shahak, a tremendously brave Israeli humanist who had no faith in collectivist change but took a Spinozist line on the importance of individuals. Gore Vidal's admirers, of whom I used to be one and to some extent remain one, hardly notice that his essential critique of America is based on Lindbergh and 'America First'—the most conservative position available. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”

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Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
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“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, like Falwell and Robertson and Rabbi Lapin, announce that this clerical aggression is a punishment for our secularism. And the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, hitherto considered allies on our 'national security' calculus, prove to be the most friendly to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.”

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Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
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“Sonnet of Abortion My body, my decision, Whether I choose birth or abortion. Till a state can care for the newborn, No bill is qualified to offer resolution. Instead of controlling my birth canal, Work on carving a paradigm of equality. Build a world where a newborn is a gift, Not a burden on life, dream or economy. Abolish all disparities born of greed, Strip the wealthy of their ill-gotten riches. Use all resources for collective welfare, So that status ends up on history pages. Worse than aborting is birthing in instability. I'll give birth when I need not rely on pity.”

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Book:Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
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“لم يجد العسكري في حياته كلها لم يجد متعة أعظم من أن يجلس السعات إلى عم حسن ، ويسمعه بمفرده أو معه الآخرون وهو يحدثهم ، ومن ذات نفسه يفرجهم على عوالم غريبة رائعة وليالي وكأنها مسحورة ترى من فنجان ، وأيام وأحداث وكأنها اغترفت من أكداس الروايات ، مع أنه في كل ما كان يتحدث به لم يكن هناك أثر للخيال ، فما رآه رأي العين أغرب مما يراه الآخرون رأي الخيال .. لاشك أن المتع كثيرة ولكن يبدو أن أمتعها جميعاً وأحلاها هي متعة أن تعرف ، متعة أن تعلم ما تجهله أو تزداد علماً بما تعرفه ، وكل ما يحدث عنه عم حسن دائماً جديد غير مطروق ، أناس وكأنهم ليسوا من جنس الناس ، وإنما من نوع آخر لا يتبدى إلا لعم حسن .. أو كأنهم الناس ، ولكن أشياء منهم مغلقة تفتح بكلمة سر لا يعرفها إلا الرجل العجوز.”

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Book:لغة الآي آي
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“Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of seeing it indeed in the round". ... Both men and women can be vain about their appearances, selfish about money, overawed by rank, and limited by parochialism; both men and women can function capably, think profoundly, feel deeply, create imaginatively, laugh wittily, and love faithfully. Without vindicating the rights of anyone directly, Austen posits a humanism far ahead of her time. "How really modern she is, after all," Welty concludes of Austen.”

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Book:Searching for Jane Austen
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“Humanists were people who wanted to return to ideas found in old Greek and Latin writing of Greece and Rome, written many centuries earlier. Christian Humanists also wanted to get back to these ideas, but they were mainly concerned with learning about the early Christian Church, before it had become involved with money-making and superstition. They wanted to read the books of the early Church, especially the gospels of Christ, in the original language of Greek, so that they would know exactly what the writings meant. The leader of the Christian Humanists was Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), who attacked superstitions in the Catholic Church in his writing.”

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Book:The Catholic Reformation
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“The grand purpose of the classically built environment, ultimately, is to propel us out of our finite selves and into the limitlessness of the divine cosmos, to shatter our pretenses and present to us a whole new way of thinking about the meaning of life itself.”

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Book:Reclaiming Classical Design: Reflections on the Harmonious and Beautiful Building
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“Cyberspace has become the new psychological landscape of humanity, a space we inhabit with our thoughts, our mind, our imagination, and one that, on average, absorbs more of our physical time than any other activity. Within it, desire and knowledge intertwine, intimacy and distance coexist, freedom and dependence overlap. Participation in cyberspace, however, inevitably entails interaction with others, and this interaction is often experienced in a looser, less regulated way than in-person encounters. It is here that the need arises to rethink citizenship, not as belonging to a state, but as conscious participation in a shared digital reality.”

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Book:Digital Citizenship: Language, Ethics, and Identity in Cyberspace
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“The Accidental American (Naskaristana 2753) Five whole years I went from door to door, looking for support, I wanted to build my own tech startup, but all I received was ridicule and advise - finally I withdrew myself from the nation I was born in, and placed all my attention on America - I had zero money, my only assets were my heart and brain, which was all I needed to reshape America, then the whole world. The Naskar you know is a direct outcome of the entrepreneur that never came to life - naskar the youngster failed in his innovation dreams, so Naskar the Civilization emerged as the earth way of life.”

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Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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“I place neither faith nor facts above the human, both must elevate human condition, or else both are equally redundant. History is full of people who were correct and cruel, history is full of people who were religious and animal.”

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Book:Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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“I am the laboratory (Sonnet 2676) Your dictionaries don't matter, your philosophies don't matter, your scriptures don't matter, your constitutions don't matter, your courts, crowns, vaticans, and washingtons don't matter - bring your brain, heart and backbone, but leave everything else at the door, your dictionary, your scripture, your constitution, your philosophy, or do not enter, there'll be no point. Truth is a garden, not a factory, which means dead leaves must fall, new branches must be tendered to. I am the laboratory, I am the court room, I am the operating theatre, I am the decontamination zone.”

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Book:With Love From A Blue Rock
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