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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire

by Peter H. Wilson

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1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

by Slavko Goldstein

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"“Of course, a man is not the same when he is alone or isolated as when he is in a group. But what is it in a human being that a crowd can arouse, sometimes to unimagined evil and more rarely to a surprising good?”" — Aug 24, 2016 09:51AM

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On Revolution

by Hannah Arendt

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The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford

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The King said, “My lord Protector.” They all turned. In a voice as hard and cold and clear as something carved from ice, Edward said, “Once I have learned properly to hate, Uncle, then will I truly be King?”

Mallory’s Quotes

“Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both.”
― Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

tags: ayn-rand, objectivism

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“Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

tags: mistakes

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“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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“But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”
― Marc Bloch

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“We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities, and the consequences of this simple, devastating realization is the defining feature of American life at the end of this low, dishonest decade.”
― Christopher L. Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

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