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Een feestmaal voor kraaien (Het Lied van IJs en Vuur #4)

by George R.R. Martin

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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

by Mark Koyama

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Thomas’s Quotes

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books, honesty, wisdom

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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil

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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson