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“Concerning the books in the Library, here is my response: if their content agrees with the [Koran], they are superfluous; and if not, they are sacrilegious. Go ahead and destroy them.”
― Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
― Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
“This is the world we live in. We are not heroes. We do not choose to be great; we have no power over our destinies. The scraps of freedom that we have are to pick between two poisons, to make the least bad decision we can, knowing that there is no outcome that will not leave us bruised, bloody on the floor.”
― Ithaca
― Ithaca
“Are you conspiring, little duck?"
"When one has neither gold, soldiers, name nor honour, what else is a woman to do?”
― Ithaca
"When one has neither gold, soldiers, name nor honour, what else is a woman to do?”
― Ithaca
“In contemporary capitalism, in contrast to the colonial period, the enforcement of neoliberal policies is the chief means of imposing income deflation on the working people of the periphery.”
― The Veins of the South Are Still Open: Debates Around the Imperialism of Our Time
― The Veins of the South Are Still Open: Debates Around the Imperialism of Our Time
“But structures are processes are not thereso that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually develop. They reproduce to populate the Earth because they are functional.”
― Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
― Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
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