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P.J. O'Rourke
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
P.J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World

Aristophanes
“A man can learn wisdom even from a foe”
Aristophanes

Jung Chang
“MAO TSE-TUNG, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world’s population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader.”
Jung Chang, Mao: The Unknown Story

Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

James Thurber
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”
James Thurber

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