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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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“Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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“SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans,” Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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“To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

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“National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”
― Wallace Stegner

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“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

tags: authority, democracy, violence

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