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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

by Eric H. Cline (Goodreads Author)

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Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology #3)

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited by Sheldon Richman

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“We tend to believe everything [the Federalists] said…,” Maier wrote. “But the Federalists … controlled the documents on which historians depend.

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“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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“Free-market commerce is the only system of human organisation yet devised where ordinary people are in charge – unlike feudalism, communism, fascism, slavery and socialism.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

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“The Planned Parenthood Foundation was founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, who thought philanthropy would ‘perpetuate constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents’.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

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“A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry to put down dissent and originality,’ said H.L. Mencken.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

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