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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without whi...more

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we jus...more

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

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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.