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Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine K. Albright

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An illiberal democracy is centered on the supposed needs of the community rather than the inalienable rights of the individual.

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“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

tags: motivation, slavery

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“You see how deviously the institution of marriage threads itself through a woman’s life? If she does not marry she is perpetually a child—until she is suddenly an old woman, that is.”
― Fiona Hill, The Stanbroke Girls

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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

tags: joy, meekness

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“Edward Glascocke of Easthampfield was brought before the Church courts in 1587 charged with sharing a bed with both his wife and his maid, a state of affairs that was held responsible for the three arriving very late for church in the mornings.18 In another case, the parson of Alphamstone in”
― Elizabeth Norton, The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History

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