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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
“Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.”
― Egg & Spoon
― Egg & Spoon
“Certainly, some reading material merits a quick read, but habitual skimming is for the mind what a steady diet of fast food is for the body.”
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
“Though it runs to billions of dollars a year, the cost of forcing healthy adults to wear disposable surgical masks will be relatively minor for wealthy countries. And cloth masks are easy to clean in places that have access to clean water. In poor countries the calculus is different. Making people wear cloth masks that cannot be easily cleaned or spend a significant part of their income on disposable ones is much harder to justify if masks don’t work.”
― Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns: Part 3: Masks
― Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns: Part 3: Masks
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.”
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“So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over--a weary, battered old brontosaurus--and became extinct.”
― Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society
― Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society
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