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by Vasily Grossman

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Jessy F said: " “Time is always the enemy of opportunists and a friend to those who stand on the side of history. It exposes false strength and rewards true strength. But time’s precious power is revealed only when people see it not as a generous gift of fate, but a ...more "

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“A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the “multiplier effect,” it unfortunately carries more conviction.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

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