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instead of defusing the crisis, popular elections in which Abraham Lincoln won the presidency triggered the conflagration.
“Avoid being in the presence of someone who might do you harm.”
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“A civilization unable to differentiate between illusion and reality is usually believed to be at the tail end of its existence.”
― Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
― Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
“The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has estimated that 61 percent of all private-sector financial liabilities are guaranteed by the federal government, either explicitly or implicitly. As recently as 1999, this figure was below 50 percent.”
― The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
― The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
“the value of threats is determined by our reaction.”
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“... the frightful absurdity that love is supposed to be something 'unegotistic' ... One has to be set firmly upon oneself, one has to stand bravely upon one's own two legs, otherwise one cannot love at all.”
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