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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

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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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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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To people who remember JFKs assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his fathers coffin. – Michael Beschloss

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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

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In man – in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that theyre occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the peoples will is what achieves victory. – Hassan Nasrallah

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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. – Liev Schreiber

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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. – Yoko Ono

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. – Auguste Comte

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In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. – Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. – P. J. ORourke

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