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Bent wrote a long and insightful letter to Washington describing the Indian situation in New Mexico—and singling out the Diné as public enemy number one. “The Navajos are an industrious, intelligent and warlike tribe,” he wrote, “numbering
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“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
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“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”
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“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
― Correspondence of Adam Smith
― Correspondence of Adam Smith
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