Thoughts are thoughts and that’s all they are.
~ Walter Kirn
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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America’s old republic was born of rebellion against Britain’s more ancient monarchy. Yet, by strange fate, the passage of time has only joined America and Britain more closely together in war and peace.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must also be frauds- is a necessary corollary.
~ Janet Malcolm
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They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.
~ Eric Hoffer
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via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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Like sailors in a storm, expecting every instant to go to the bottom, the believers suddenly became religious, prayed violently, and flattered themselves that they repented them of their evil courses. But a plain tale soon put them down, and quenched their religion entirely.
~ Charles MacKay
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The utopia of socialism with a human face has been crushed everywhere even before it could be born. How distressing that becoming humane, which should be the least we could expect from a regime dedicated to liberating humanity, should present for socialism a problem as impossible as squaring the circle.
~ Jean-François Revel
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