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“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“They are for ‘freedom’ when it is freedom to kill third-term fetuses or engage in same-sex marriages or stuff coke up their noses; they do not define freedom as anything to do with captive peoples around the world having the chance to escape the tyrannies that constrain them. They like Fidel because he is a thorn in America’s side and a sort of dime-store existentialist, and they rhapsodize about his spreading of literacy in Cuba without considering the fact that at the same time that he teaches people to read he tortures writers like Armando Valladares whose books he doesn’t like.”
― The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings
― The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings
“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.”
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different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.”
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“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”
― The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
― The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
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