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"In Egypt, on a fresh water canal, I saw a man defecating in the water, while below him at a distance of not more than ten yards, women were washing clothes, and a short distance further downstream a village populace was drawing drinking water. "
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"All of the animals are head shy and many are blind as a result of the 'cheerful' Arab custom of beating them on the head with a stick."
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It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.
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"It took me a long time to realize just how much a student of medieval history could gain from observing the Arab."

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I'm collecting different quotes I find in FreeRepublic into a MS Word file for future use and I just want to make sure of these quotes you offered, having never heard these before. Are these correctly attributed to Patton?

Just checking.