“When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.”
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“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.”
― The New Organon
― The New Organon
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The Modern and the Postmodern
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