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Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense about Primitive Society by C.R. Hallpike

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He is just in a philosophical muddle that confuses what is material with what is real, and what is immaterial with fiction.

“Problems which bear directly on the future of our civilization cannot be disposed of by general talk or vague formulae—by what Lincoln called ‘pernicious abstractions,’ ” he stated. “They require concrete solutions for definite and extremely complicated questions.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

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“The traveller is the one who takes his truth with him into strange lands. The moment he forgets his truth, he ceases to be a traveller, and becomes the strange land.”
― Chris Wraight, Warhawk

tags: quotes-about-truth, the-black-library, the-horus-heresy, the-siege-of-terra, travel-quotes

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“Leaders at all ranks, but especially at high ranks, must keep in their inner circle people who will unhesitatingly point out when a leader’s personal behavior or decisions are not appropriate”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

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“Reading is an honor and a gift from a warrior or historian who—a decade or a thousand decades ago—set aside time to write. He distilled a lifetime of campaigning in order to have a “conversation” with you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

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“To each,” Winston Churchill would say, “there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” It’s more accurate to say that life has many of these moments, many such taps on the shoulder.”
― Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

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