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European colonialism may have ended here and there, but the condition of coloniality continues—not just economically, but also culturally, epistemically, morally, imaginatively.
Europe and Its Shadows
Hamid Dabashi
After all, who is more self-important than rebels and revolutionaries? And who is more certain of what is important, and not only to them, than rebels and revolutionaries? Irreverence, then, is also an opportunity to think about importance, and the importance of importance. The irreverent take those they mock with immense seriousness.
The Life You Want
Adam Phillips
From the Medici of Florence and the Fuggers of Augsburg to the Rothschilds of Paris and London and the Morgans of New York, bankers have sat in the councils of governments, financing wars and popes, and occasionally sparking a revolution. __Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, they know that history is inflationary, and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.__
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
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