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“What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“You'll never feel the joy of movement if you're struggling.”
― Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
― Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
“The lenses through which any nation looks at life are not the ones another nation uses.”
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“The virtue argument, by contrast, rests on a judgement that greed is a vice that the state should discourage. But who is to judge what is virtue and what is vice? Don't citizens of pluralist societies disagree about such things? And isn't it dangerous to impose judgements about virtue through law?”
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“History allows us to see patterns and make judgements. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It reveals moments, each one of them different, none entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being cocreator of another.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Graphic Edition
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Graphic Edition
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