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FOR WHAT WILL IT PROFIT A MAN, IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND FORFEITS HIS LIFE?
“It was a great moral improvement when men ceased to kill or eat their fellowmen, and merely made them slaves. A similar development on a larger scale may be seen today, when a nation victorious in war no longer exterminates the enemy, but enslaves it with indemnities.”
― Our Oriental Heritage
― Our Oriental Heritage
“In agriculture the stick became the hoe; in war it became the lance or javelin or spear, the sword or bayonet.”
― Our Oriental Heritage
― Our Oriental Heritage
“The Fijians, however, complained that the flesh of the whites was too salty and tough, and that a European sailor was hardly fit to eat; a Polynesian tasted better.”
― Our Oriental Heritage
― Our Oriental Heritage
“Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
Rithvik’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rithvik’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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24 friends
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132 books
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157 books
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103 books
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1 book
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