The British monarch is both the head of state and that state’s most closely watched prisoner, forbidden to say or do anything remotely human, let alone political.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me.
~ William Faulkner
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The “global economy” is a place where common people have no leverage. Parties of the left lost sight of such problems after the 1970s, Wolfgang Streeck notes. They allowed their old structure, oriented around industrial workers and primarily concerned with workers’ rights and living standards, to be infiltrated and overthrown by intellectuals, who were primarily concerned with promoting systems of values, such as human rights and lately the set of principles known as wokeism.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings.
~ Rollo May
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them.
~ Henry James
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it, that we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
~ Will Rogers
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Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.
~ Gertrude Stein
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April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
~ T.S. Eliot
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I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done. I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
~ James Baldwin
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