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“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
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“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
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“Slippery use of the word “privilege” is part of a vogue of calling achievements “privileges”—a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.”
― Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
― Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.”
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“Evil is ancient, unchanging, and with us always. The more postmodern the West becomes — affluent, leisured, nursed on moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, and multicultural relativism — the more premodern the evil among us seems to arise in nihilistic response.”
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