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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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3.10.03


Edward Said (1935 - 2003)
memorial page at Al-Ahram

"...he was critical of the inability of Israeli leaders to make the necessary symbolic gestures that have to precede any political solution. The Arabs, on the other hand, were and are still unable to accept his sensitivity towards Jewish history, limiting themselves to repeating their innocence as far as the suffering of Jewish people is concerned."
�Daniel Barenboim

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