Monthly Archives: December 2011

Solzhenitsyn

“If we become free, it will be through our own efforts. If there is any lesson to be drawn from the 20th Century for mankind, we shall give to the West and not the West to us. Their excessive affluence … Continue reading

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Medici

“Hate and wait” Motto of Catherine di Medici

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Palestine

“Palestine is the cement that hold the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart” Yassar Arafat: November 1974

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East vs West

“One can contemplate, for an exercise, orientalism in Britain and materialism in Japan, or enterprise in Singapore and traditionalism in London. Or one could ask who, at the time of the Suez crisis, was the bigger crackpot, Nasser or Eden? … Continue reading

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