More From Salman Rushdie
- "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes."
- "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."
- "Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."
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- "I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston."― Thomas Menino
- "Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."― Joseph Butler
- "I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."― Virgil Thomson