James Poulos
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“Although obviously we are beholding a person when we behold ourselves, our instincts rebel at the notion that we’re reckoning with a person when we reckon with our selves.”
― The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
― The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
“It’s almost as if we dreamed up this thing called the self in order to focus our chaotic energies on a single dysfunctional relationship.”
― The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
― The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
“Those of us who imagine we have a big caste of permanently wealthy Americans are just much more wrong than we think. Even when generations manage to hold onto wealth, the gymnastics they must perform are risky and laborious, the failure rate is high, and the casualties can be enormous. (Exhibit A: the Hilton family.)”
― The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
― The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
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