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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#combat #decides #engage #find #individual

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#been #difficulty #examining #history #how

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#conflict #desire #fall #falling #fear

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easily #make #power #room #solitude

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. ↗

— John Ruskin

#let us #little #needed #our #prisons

When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#admit #amount #any #artist #audience

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#species #subdivision #term #variety

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#contribution #differences #each #established #ever

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#characterized #combination #distinct #each #inherited