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Hurt and aggression have a way of rendering people blind.
“It follows that in order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“At a minimum the name should puzzle foreigners—this is a basic requirement of most British institutions—and ideally it should excite long and inconclusive debate, defy all logical explanation, and evoke images that border on the surreal. Among”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
“Still, humans have a wonderful capacity to believe in contradictions. So it should not come as a surprise that millions of pious Christians, Muslims and Jews manage to believe at one and the same time in an omnipotent God and an independent Devil. Countless”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“If there is one thing certain about English pronunciation it is that there is almost nothing certain about it. No other language in the world has more words spelled the same way and yet pronounced differently.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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