Quote by Salman Rushdie
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. – Salman Rushdie

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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie

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Change
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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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History
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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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History

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. – Gustave Flaubert

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History

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

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History

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world. – Victor Cousin

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History

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Let me ask you something, what is not art? – Author Unknown

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You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society – the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and thats what this is. – Alice Cooper

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

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Money isnt the most important thing in life, but its reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale. – Zig Ziglar

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