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"This book started alowly, but now I can barely put it down! Fascinating discussion about how Julian tried to institute government charity. The author argues it was because he saw that church bishops had become truly powerful - raising large sums for the poor with extensive client lists. Makes me think that is why the modern governments insist on running welfare today-to take power to itself and away from churches." — Feb 21, 2026 03:23PM
"This book started alowly, but now I can barely put it down! Fascinating discussion about how Julian tried to institute government charity. The author argues it was because he saw that church bishops had become truly powerful - raising large sums for the poor with extensive client lists. Makes me think that is why the modern governments insist on running welfare today-to take power to itself and away from churches." — Feb 21, 2026 03:23PM
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
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“no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“Since time is no longer cyclical but one-way and irreversible, personal history is now possible and an individual life can have value.”
― The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
― The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a marriage, or even do a quadratic equation, yet they believe they know how to rule the world. The university, in which it is possible to combine theoretical pretension with comprehensive ineptitude, has become the natural habitat of the ideological enthusiast. A kind of adventure playground, carefully insulated from reality in order to prevent absent-minded professors from bumping into things as they explore transcendental realms, has become the institutional base for civilizational self-hatred.”
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