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Mike Klepper
http://the-other-side-of-history.blogspot.com/
“Opportunities are taken or created, never given.”
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“Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?”
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“Difference in opinion does not imply difference in principle.”
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“First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.”
― Liberalism and Its Critics
― Liberalism and Its Critics
“People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.”
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Mike’s 2025 Year in Books
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