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When your country is in agony, you don't seek frivolous recreations. I'm in mourning - for my country.

pg 85 - first appearance of the word 'disgrace'

"Catharsis seems to be the presiding principle"

Pg. 16: "A woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it."

Quotes leading up to pg 15: "He lives within his income, within his temperament, within his emotional means." | "Call no man happy until he is dead." | "He continues to teach...because it teaches him humility." | "The one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing."

Opening line: "For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well."

Liberty means recognizing the consequences of actions.

The drug debate (legalizing drugs) is nothing but a red herring; let's not get distracted.

Libertarians believe that government is best when it governs least. In other words, a libertarian is an antiprogressive.

"It's time that we call the shell game what it really is: a scam. We need to expose the "two-party" system as a one-party monopoly" - pg 17