"The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them."
"Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed."
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Source: Genesis. Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
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