Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In every age and every generation men have envisioned some promised land. Plato envisioned it in his republic as a time when justice would reign throughout society and philosophers would become kings and kings philosophers. Karl Marx envisioned it as a classless society in which the proletariat would finally conquer the reign of the bourgeoisie.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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History has proven that social systems have a great last-minute breathing power, and the guardians of the status quo are always on hand with their oxygen tents to keep the old order alive.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Luddism and science fiction concern themselves with the same questions: not merely what the technology does, but who it does it for and who it does it to.
~ Cory Doctorow
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The Fascist system has to carry on persistently the task begun by the Fascist Movement: the destruction of the democratic parties, organisations, and institutions in society. Fascism must then proceed to attempt to change the nature of human consciousness itself.
― Karl Polanyi
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am certain that Jesus understood the difficulty inherent in the act of loving one’s enemy. He never joined the ranks of those who talk glibly about the easiness of the moral life. He realized that every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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