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“To make America’s least employable citizens dependent on the whims of the state, rather than their neighbors, is to clear a path for demagogues.”
― Michael Shindler

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The Tower of Babel is one of those mythological narratives that, in the words of the 4th-century philosopher Sallustius, 'never happened, but always are.' Man in his arrogance always strives against his own nature and circumstances to bring together the different nations of the world and establish an order that can facilitate some lofty ideal and he always fails. Just as Nimrod’s tower fell, so did Alexander’s, Cyrus’s, Attila’s, and Napoleon’s. This sort of geopolitical project—even when buttressed by the best reasons and most noble goals—never succeeds.”
― Michael Shindler

“Within a Hell of godless emptiness
submit yourself ever more to sleep's spell.
All is a dream, all is nothingness:
the flower of the world is the asphodel.”
― Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poema paradisiaco