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Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

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The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances and so on—were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by ...more

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“What’s it called when you go out into the forest and other men follow you? Leadership. What’s it called if the same man goes out into the forest on his own? A walk.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

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“If you don’t fall in love with it in time, you’ll have gotten so big that you imagine that it’s a sport. You have to have been a child the first time your body played and your heart relaxed to know that it’s just a game. And if you’re lucky, really lucky, it never stops being just that.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

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“In order to espouse their endless irrational positions while maintaining a straight face, social justice warriors must ignore, deny, or reject reality. Progressivism has become an enemy of reason.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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“a rational person thinks; an irrational person feels.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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“Several years ago, Tal Nitzan, then a doctoral student at Hebrew University, authored an award-winning paper that examined the incidence of rape as perpetrated by Israeli Defense Forces on Palestinian women. Undoubtedly, the goal was to uncover an epidemic of rape to demonstrate how diabolical those evil Jews truly were. When no such empirical reality was found, it was concluded (you might need to sit down for this) that this was proof of the extent to which the Israelis dehumanized the Palestinians.59 They were so hateful that they did not even consider the Palestinian women worthy of rape! If rapes are uncovered or if none are discovered, the same conclusion is reached: the Israelis are diabolical. All roads lead to self-flagellation and self-loathing. It’s the hallmark of a true “progressive.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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