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“And, most precious of all, you will have Time—that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.”
― Lost Horizon
― Lost Horizon
“Impelled by the notions that science is oppression and criticism is violence, the central regulation of debate and inquiry is returning to respectability—this time in a humanitarian disguise.”
― Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
― Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
“Patricia Crone famously quipped that, with regard to Muhammad's trade journeys in sīrah-maghāzī literature, "What the [Arabic] sources offer are fifteen equally fictitious versions of an event that never took place.”
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
“Turki al Bin ‘ali does the Islamic equivalent of smashing an electric guitar and kicking over an amplifier every time he steps up to the minbar.”
― The Way of the Strangers
― The Way of the Strangers
“Marmaduke's theory was that, as he couldn't understand Christianity, it was safe to premise that people whose religion was a mixture of degraded Buddhism and devilworship couldn't understand it either. So he founded a Buddhist mission, to teach 'em their own religion.”
― Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
― Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley
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