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“Those who clamour so loudly for less work and more pay may find that the benefit they get now will have to be paid for at a thousand percent interest some day in the future.A payment in misery and hunger and suffering. If we are to steer off the reef of national disaster, then men will have to learn to work again, and to take seriously once more the demands of a disciplined and orderly society.”
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“Thats a telling point: the absurd result of describing all cultural values as equal is that the values of middle New Zealand are no better than those of medieval African slave culture”
― I've Been Thinking
― I've Been Thinking
“It's true, you know, Mark. There is nobody so virtuous as a reformed whore. We were the great robber barons-Rhodes and Robertson, Bailey and Barnato, Duff, Charleywood and Sean Courtney. We seized the land and then ripped the gold out of the earth, we hunted where we pleased, and burned the finest timber for our campfires, every man with a rifle in his hand and shoes on his feet was a king, prepared to fight anybody, Boer, Briton or Zulu, for the right of plunder.”
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“When human beings act, they inevitably synthesise memories of the past into new expectations and mental images for the future, regarding the different stages in the action process they will follow. The future is never predetermined, but instead the actor imagines, creates and builds it step by step. Therefore, the future is always uncertain, since it has yet to be done or built, and the only part of it the actor possesses consists of specific ideas, mental images or expectations he hopes to realise through the completion of stages he imagines.”
― Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
― Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
“Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple because you attacked us and continue to attack us". Bin Laden cited foremost, U.S support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the "oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation" that have taken place there. "The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone. Bin Laden claims that "The Jews have taken control of your economy" and are "Making you their servants”
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Dylan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Dylan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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