Emre Poyraz

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Emre’s Quotes

“You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.”
― John Rogers

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“Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: anarchism, coercion, government, nap, non-aggression-principle, philosophy, rationality, statism, voluntarism, voluntaryism

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“Half of these aren't even Machiavelli.
Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

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“Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.”
― Steve Keen

tags: crisis, economy, money

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“I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.”
― Maurice Sendak

tags: childhood

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