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Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind

by Sarah Posner

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Jordan’s Quotes

“I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.”
― Montaigne

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“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: tolerance, xenophobia

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“No wind favors he who has no destined port.”
― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

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“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
― Marguerite de Navarre

tags: achievement, effort, french, grapes, medieval, troubador, vines

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“There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)”
― Michel de Montaigne, Essays

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