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Greg is Currently Reading

Greg is currently reading

Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty

by Isaiah Berlin

bookshelves: isaiah-berlin, pol-phil-theory, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in December 1995

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Dec 18, 2024 01:43PM

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The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

by Marc Bloch

bookshelves: history, currently-reading

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(page 136 of 197)
"We have acquired the right of disbelief, because we understand, better than in the past, when and why we ought to disbelieve. And it is by this means that science has succeeded in throwing off the dead weight of a great many spurious problems." — 18 hours, 23 min ago

Jun 13, 2026 04:46AM

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Typisch Bayerisch

by Richard Kerler

bookshelves: deutsch, currently-reading

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"Starkbier ist Kindernahrung

Der kloane Maxl mit fünf Jahr geht mit Vater und Mutter zum Starkbier.
Die Kellnerin bringt unaufgefordert zwei Maß. Sagt der Maxl: ,Ja wieso? Trinkt d’Muatta heut nix?‘" — Jun 13, 2026 04:25AM

Mar 05, 2026 08:55AM

Greg’s Quotes

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: definition

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“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”
― Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

tags: music

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