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“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
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“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
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“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― Prejudices: Second series
― Prejudices: Second series
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
― A Little Book In C Major
― A Little Book In C Major
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.”
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Joshua’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Joshua’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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52 friends
359 books
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82 friends
189 books
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90 books
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1 book
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54 friends
62 books
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0 books
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27 friends
1,624 books
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521 friends
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