You don’t have to tell a fart it ought to happen—that puts it in a bind. It’s just like telling a child to come and play its game in front of a crowded audience of relatives on Thanksgiving. It absolutely bugs children when you do that.
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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“To live a free life, it is not enough that we have the right to freedom. We must have access to the material resources as well as the forms of education that allow us to pursue our freedom and to “own” the question of what to do with our time. What belongs to each one of us—what is irreducibly our own—is not property or goods but the time of our lives.”
― This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
― This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
“We redefine what it means to be a good person as someone who is trying to be better, as opposed to someone who is allowing themselves to believe in the illusion that they are always a good person.”
― The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
― The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
“Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
Davis County Democrats Book Club
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