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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
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Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
