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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“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

Zbigniew Brzeziński
“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

Jon Meacham
“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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