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Alexander Pope
“Some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools”
Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
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Alexander Pope
“All fools have still an itching to deride”
Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
tags: fools

Alexander Pope
“Half-learn'd witlings”
Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
tags: fools

Ayn Rand
“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of law-breakers—and then you cash in on guilt.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

John McPhee
“In the view of conservationists, there is something special about dams, something—as conservation problems go—that is disproportionately and metaphysically sinister. The outermost circle of the Devil’s world seems to be a moat filled mainly with DDT. Next to it is a moat of burning gasoline. Within that is a ring of pinheads each covered with a million people—and so on past phalanxed bulldozers and bicuspid chain saws into the absolute epicenter of Hell on earth, where stands a dam.”
John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid

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