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“God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: intellect, repose, truth

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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil

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“Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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“The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the "American dream"-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power

tags: the-american-dream, united-states

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“Madison described the state of play well in May 1798: “The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views.…22 Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad.” Extreme measures”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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