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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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Mallory’s Notes & Highlights

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

“There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.”
― Gene Siskel

tags: facts, judgment, opinion

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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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“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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“The Scooby gang doesn’t travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they’re one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred’s got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.”
― John Scalzi, Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded

tags: cults, humor, scooby-doo

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