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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
— Anaïs Nin
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“If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
— Jordan Peterson
Dazzled with the height of place,
While our hopes our wits beguile,
No man marks the narrow space
Between a prison and a smile.
- Francis Bacon
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"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
— Owen Feltham
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“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
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"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
— C.S. Lewis
Replying to @LeoTollstoy @Joe_Redlin
You can always know who the dumbest and the smartest person in the room is, the dumbest is convincing everyone how smart they are and the smartest is asking everyone questions.
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“I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core!”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Sympathy”
Maya Angelou would pick up on this.
Twa Duries in Durrisdeer,
Ane to tie and ane to ride,
An ill day for the groom
And a waur day for the bride.
- “The Master of Ballantrae”
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“Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.”
— Milton Friedman
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“What the reactionary says never interests anybody. Neither at the time he says it, because it seems absurd, nor after a few years, because it seems obvious.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila






























