Jacob V.
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Were the foraging peoples who preceded the agricultural revolution and the creation of cities “savages”? Or were they “noble savages”? The editors of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter Gatherers are Rousseauvians to a man, who feel that
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“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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“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“...The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth than is the sophistry with which men attempt to justify him....”
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“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
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