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Quote by Salman Rushdie
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservativ

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie

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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry
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Salman Rushdie
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. – Salman Rushdie

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Society
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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power
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You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Change

We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. – Serj Tankian

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Change

Fame changes a lot of things, but it cant change a lightbulb. – Gilda Radner

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We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson

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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. – C.S. Lewis

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One person alone cant do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. – Carol Ann Duffy

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