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““When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.””

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“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”

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“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come,…

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“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of…

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“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.”

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“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the…

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“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.”

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“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It reveals moments, of each of them different, none entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility…

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“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.…

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“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.”

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“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.”

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“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt the president politically. Reality television must become most dramatic with each episode. If we found a video of the president performing Cossack dances while Vladimir Putin claps, we would probably just demand the same thing with the president…

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“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.”

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“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”

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Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot…

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Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to…

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“Sometimes people rise above their past, sometimes not. And sometimes the people you least expect it from—like Raylan and my father— have a way…

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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me…

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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the…

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“I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg came again to my mind and I thought that I could use it as a crystal to look at Madrid in those days…

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Knowledge owns the past and future, as long as we've the information we've power over the future.

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“The past is the past, you cant change it. All you can do is look forward to the future.”

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“What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: I stopped thinking. [...] Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down. For once, words really failed me. Past and future dropped away. I forgot who and what I was, my name, manhood, animalhood, all that could be called mine. It was as if I had been born that instant,…

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“Light upon light upon light--- back and back we trace it to its Source, radiating light and sound---a voice, an echo guiding those who hear Love's desire unfold the universe's story, who come to this call like thirsty birds to water. Beloved, the One creates for us models, signs, symbols, parables everywhere we look to remind us of our Source.…

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