"In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only……" — Steven Pinker
"In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted a man for carrying a phone booklet with characters in an alphabet from his native Eritrea, which the police interpreted as occult symbols. He was lashed three hundred times and imprisoned for more than three years."
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them…
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental…
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,…
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
— Marcel Duchamp
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
— Victor Hugo
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