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Jacob Benoit
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Henry George argued that because it takes many poor men to make one rich man, progress in fact creates poverty. The only way to solve this, “the great enigma of our times,” was to have a single tax on land, as the most ubiquitous form of
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“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“Men act badly sometimes without being much worse than others,”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
“In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees only that the majority will not be despotically ruled.”
― Walden Two
― Walden Two
“The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love and lose your moneys to a monster, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the poor mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”
― The Sword in the Stone
― The Sword in the Stone
Jacob’s 2024 Year in Books
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601 books
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77 friends
2,126 books
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111 friends
257 books
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0 books
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45 books
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1,476 books
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202 friends
145 books
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854 books
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105 friends
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