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- We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.
- Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those…
- Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent…
- Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.
- If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either…
- Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties…
- You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle