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It is characteristic of De Monarchia, and of all similar treatises, that there should be this divorce between formal and real meanings, that the formal meaning should not explicitly state but only indirectly express, and to one or another
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“The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. —Hilaire Belloc”
― The Road to Serfdom
― The Road to Serfdom
“Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“The choice of a political principle can and will be defended with reasons, but it cannot be secured with a proof sufficiently conclusive to end political debate.”
― A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy
― A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy
“We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS”
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“But when I began researching Robert Moses’ expressway-building, and kept reading, in textbook after textbook, some version of the phrase “the human cost of highways” with never a detailed examination of what the “human cost” truly consisted of or of how it stacked up against the benefits of highways, I found myself simply unable to go forward to the next chapter. I felt I just had to try to show—to make readers not only see but understand and feel—what “human cost” meant.”
― Working
― Working
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