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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel (2007)

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When Muslim women face not just oppression but violent death, why aren’t the feminists out protesting these abusers?

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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

As a tribe we are fragmented; as clans, scattered; as families, dysfunctional.

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

If there is an infallible mark of an advanced civilization it is surely the marginalization and criminalization of violence.

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But the more pressing business is what feminists can do to prevent an alien culture of oppression from taking root in the West.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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