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Pick up a rifle—a really good rifle—and if you know how to use it well, you change instantly from a mouse to a man, from a peon to a caballero, and—most significantly—from a subject to a citizen.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
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“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
― Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
― Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
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Rob’s 2025 Year in Books
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