England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on England's geographical isolation and how it shapes its identity and boundaries.
Salman Rushdie's quote highlights the unique geographical situation of England as an island nation, suggesting that this isolation has a profound impact on its culture, identity, and the way it interacts with the rest of the world. The sea serves as a natural frontier that offers both protection and definition, shaping the nation's historical and cultural narrative. This idea hints at how physical boundaries can influence a society's development and worldview.
In practice
In a geography class discussing the importance of natural borders.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
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