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Salman Rushdie
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1990). In good faith, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1990). In good faith, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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