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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.

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“After a rebellion…power tends to flow to those most organized, not automatically to the most idealistic.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

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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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“Courage has clear rewards. One takes a risk because they hope for a payoff—something others are afraid to reach for. But what about sacrificing oneself? Or sacrificing deeply for something? There’s courage and then there is heroism, the highest form of courage. The kind embodied in those who are willing to give, perhaps give everything, for someone else.”
― Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

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“If you don’t like problems, stay out of leadership.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

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“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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