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Orthodoxy

by G.K. Chesterton

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Epee 2.5: The New Paradigm Revised and Augmented

by Johan Harmenberg

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“The illusion of feeling well-informed....a public that feels informed in proportion as it is to befuddled. In one of his characteristic pronouncements, at a press conference in May 1962, John F. Kennedy proclaimed the end of ideology in words that appealed to both these public needs-the need to believe that political decisions are in the hands of dispassionate, bipartisan experts and the need to believe that the problems experts deal with are unintelligible to laymen.”
― Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

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“I don't care what you think unless it is about me.”
― Kurt Cobain

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“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil

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“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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