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Quote by Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie

Other quotes by Salman Rushdie

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie

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History
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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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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? – Carl Jung

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Im really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. – Emma Watson

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History

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. – Jeremy Rifkin

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History

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. – Eddie Bernice Johnson

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