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“There came a day when the Masons, laying aside their stones, became workmen of another kind, not less builders than before, but using truths for tools and dramas for designs, uplifting such a temple as Watts dreamed of decorating with his visions of the august allegory of the evolution of man.”
― Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry

tags: allegory, freemasons, masonry, stones-to-dramas

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“Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.”
― Edmund Burke

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“The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

tags: elections

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“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: corruption, freedom, liberty

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“At the stroke of midnight in Washington, a drooling red-eyed beast with the legs of a man and a head of a giant hyena crawls out of its bedroom window in the South Wing of the White House and leaps fifty feet down to the lawn...pauses briefly to strangle the Chow watchdog, then races off into the darkness...towards the Watergate, snarling with lust, loping through the alleys behind Pennsylvania Avenue, and trying desperately to remember which one of those fore hundred identical balconies is the one outside of Martha Mitchell's apartment....Ah...Nightmares, nightmares. But I was only kidding. The President of the United States would never act that weird. At least not during football season.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

tags: nixon, politics, werewolf

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