"Clearly," she interrupted me, "to be original is to be in some way distinct from others. Hence, to be original is to violate equality. And that which in the language of the ancients was called 'being banal’ is with us merely the
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“This idea commonly goes by the name “states’ rights” these days. Its opponents have conflated it with power in state governments, and some of those opponents have been so influential that many of federalism’s friends are prone to see it that way too.1 As Jefferson and the like-minded understood it, however, it meant limitation on federal power. Insofar as the US government did not have power, they believed, that power remained in the states as distinct, preexisting political communities”
― Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
― Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
“In Afghanistan, you either become a crafty fox or die a trusting hare.”
― Capture or Kill
― Capture or Kill
“Friends, remember that you are as honorable as the risk you take for your opinions. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb”
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
“Before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct.”
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
― SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
“Invoking the story of David, Davies implored his students to “imbibe and cherish a public spirit. Serve your generation. Live not for your selves, but the public. Be the servants of the Church; the servants of your Country; the servants of all.” He exhorted them to “esteem yourselves” not by how much “more happy, honourable and important” you can become but by how much “more useful you are!”
― Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
― Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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