"The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated."

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Arthur Koestler

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“There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.”
“How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely...”

Source : Joseph Delaney (2014). “Last Apprentice 3-Book Collection: Revenge of the Witch, Curse of the Bane, Night of the Soul Stealer”, p.39, Harper Collins
“Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).”

Source : William Maxwell (1989). “The outermost dream: essays and reviews”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire”
“The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.”
“People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.”

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