The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Topic

Impossibility of progress The world

Author

V.S. Naipaul

Source

A Bend in the River

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Novelist Writer

From

Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean

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Citation

Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

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Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

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Sexual revolution Men and women

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Midge Decter
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21

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Topic
Nature of the world Creation of the world Creation The world
Source
Genesis The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Hebrew
Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 1:21).