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an advertising of one’s willingness to fight and even to put one’s life on the line—were at least plausible means of gaining whatever measure of security was possible in a lawless region and a violent time. The kinds of attitudes and
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
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“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”
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“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say "I know", I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.”
― Plays 1: Insignificance / Unsuitable for Adults / Cries from the Mammal House
― Plays 1: Insignificance / Unsuitable for Adults / Cries from the Mammal House
Carlos’s 2025 Year in Books
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