Amazons of Black Sparta by Stanley B. Alpern


“I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. Rather I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself. The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written elsewhere, take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge. One”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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