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The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies

by Jeffrey A. Winters

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Jul 14, 2026 01:20PM

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Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

by Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)

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Michael’s Quotes

“Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by fighting back.”
― Piet Hein, Grooks 1

tags: problem-solving, problems

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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns

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“A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

tags: generals, wwii

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