What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? β The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world. β¨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
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- Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. β¨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
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