An inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.
~ Edmund Cooper
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Campus Life at the
University of Saskatchewan
Campus Life at the
University of Guelph
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Education is more than the acquisition of marketable skills, and you are more than your ability to contribute to your employer’s bottom line or the nation’s GDP, no matter what the rhetoric of politicians or executives would have you think.
~ William Deresiewicz
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The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity. If that’s what people had you do, then you were robbed. And if you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you were at the beginning – the same beliefs, the same values, the same desires, the same goals for the same reasons – then you did it wrong.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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