Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
Al-Khisal, p. 4
[Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi, Jasim al-Rasheed, The Life of Imam Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Baqir, His traditions from the Prophet, 1999]
“The history of human knowledge is nothing more than the realization that yesterday's pieties are actually shameful errors.”
"France's censorship demands to Twitter are more dangerous than 'hate speech'" in The Guardian, 2 January 2013. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/02/free-speech-twitter-france
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