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" Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. "
Tariq Ali
Enthusiasm
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" There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture. "
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" In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right. "
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" As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never. "
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