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“Пропаганда называет диссидентов «контрреволюционерами», поскольку революция на Кубе типа продолжается («нет у революции конца», помним-помним). Стало быть, люди, желающие перемен, это здесь контрреволюционеры.
А те, которые хотят оставаться у власти, в роскоши реквизированных особняков через шестьдесят лет после ее захвата — это революционеры!
Тут главное — не перепутать.”
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А те, которые хотят оставаться у власти, в роскоши реквизированных особняков через шестьдесят лет после ее захвата — это революционеры!
Тут главное — не перепутать.”
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“Both “sides” lost — and they lost because they became sides, instead of remaining fellow countrymen with different cultures.”
― Black Rednecks and White Liberals
― Black Rednecks and White Liberals
“Like stem-cell research, another potentially transformative force for good, free trade is held in check largely by the stupid, the ignorant, and the superstitious.”
― The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
― The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
“When the government prints money, everyone is temporarily happier. But a lot of them are being tricked, and eventually they’re going to regret their former “good fortune.”
― The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
― The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
“...the crucial fact of the world we live in is that all actions or inactions entail costs which have to be taken into account in order to reach a rational decision. "Rational" is used here in its most basic sense - the ability to make a ratio, as in "rational numbers" in mathematics - so that rational decisions are decisions that weigh one thing against another, a trade-off as distinguished from a crusade to achieve some “good thing” without weighing costs.”
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