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TO AN EAGLE OR to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse.
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“Our reaction against the sentimentality embodied in Victorian and post-Victorian writing was so resolute writers came to believe that the further from sentimentality we got, the truer the art. That was a mistake. ...if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self.”
― The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
― The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
“the necessary thing from the socialists’ point of view is not egalitarian economic outcomes, but state control.”
― Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism
― Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism
“Socialism always begins with a universal vision for the brotherhood of man and ends with people having to eat their own pets.”
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“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
“Nonetheless, Braudel’s definitional opposition of capitalism and market economy is misleading. Even in the early modern era, and even in its “upper echelon,” the kind of capitalism taking shape was characterized by a great deal of competition, profit and loss, rise and fall, opportunity and risk. It was rooted in the market economy and, as a rule, contributed not to the elimination of markets but to their becoming more universal. Essentially, this remains true to this day.”
― Capitalism: A Short History
― Capitalism: A Short History
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