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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
~ George Orwell
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The flannel, the Catholic mysticism, the bunker aesthetic — it’s all part of the shameless act. Underneath is a Machiavellian tactician who understands power not as something to dismantle, but to inhabit. Part P.T. Barnum, part Pat Buchanan, this is a man who preaches humility while flying private. Steve Bannon isn’t leading a rebellion. He is selling one.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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