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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
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MVS’s 2025 Year in Books
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