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“Classical Islamic civilization had long passed its prime when the Mongols arrived on the scene in the thirteenth century, and was already in an advance state of what most historians would call decline.”
― Bernard Lewis (Author)

“The social institutions and attitudes inherited from earlier times and maintained with increasing rigidity made it difficult to adapt to changing circumstances or to create new political and economic institutions which would facilitate such an adaption. An attitude towards unbelievers that varied from condescension in good times, to hostility and mistrust in bad times, made it difficult to learn from them, or even to understand them, at a time when it was the West, and not as previously the Islamic world, that had something to teach.”
― Bernard Lewis (Author), The Arabs in History

“[...] the past century has shown that dumb minds can do extraordinary damage.”
― Daniel Pipes

“Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.”
― Bernard Lewis (Author), The Muslim Discovery of Europe

“A devoted cleric, he [Lenin] argued, is far more influential than an egotistical and immoral one. [p. 51]”
― Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

“But ask not what your country can do for you. Come up with a plan yourself. Social media will judge it and forward it to the mainstream media and the candidates themselves. Ask yourself what you want and create a deal structure that gets it for you.

Who is stopping you? (from his blog: 'Deportation and Deals" 8/31/16)”
― Scott Adams