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"This book (especially the editor footnotes) is giving me a braingasm." — Mar 10, 2026 10:59AM
"This book (especially the editor footnotes) is giving me a braingasm." — Mar 10, 2026 10:59AM
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
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“...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
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