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“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
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“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― In Defense of Women
― In Defense of Women
“These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again. [Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957]”
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Jack’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jack’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
290 books
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1,442 friends
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74 friends
0 books
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11 friends
20 books
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300 friends
53 books
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59 friends
4 books
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49 friends
11 books
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18 friends
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