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To Serve Humanity
“ . . . I used to think I was serving humanity…and I pleasured myself in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be...
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Oct 24, 20221 min read


That's Offensive
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ” ~ Salman Rushdie #FavoriteQuotes
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Oct 10, 20221 min read


Desire
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?” ― Virgil, The Aeneid #FavoriteQuotes
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Sep 26, 20221 min read


Puppetry
“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a...
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Sep 19, 20221 min read


Phoenicians
“That’s a slave’s life, you’re describing, not to be able to speak freely.” ~EURIPIDES Greek tragic poet (480 or 485 B.C. - 406 B.C), in...
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Sep 12, 20221 min read


Nursery
“Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten or twelve...
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Sep 5, 20221 min read


Control
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another,...
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Aug 29, 20221 min read


Equity
"Equity as a concept says recognize that everyone has the same capacity, but in order for them to have equal opportunity to reach that...
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Aug 22, 20221 min read


No Mountain Climbing
“We must all be alike. Not everyone BORN free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man the image of every...
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Aug 15, 20221 min read


Oh, The Humanity
“This virus cannot kill off the whole of humankind without first killing off its humanity. Man fears that at the End of Days, demons from...
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Aug 8, 20221 min read


Altruism
“[O]f all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of ‘altruism’ is the worst. People do what they want to, every time.” — the...
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Aug 1, 20221 min read


Truth
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations...
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Jul 25, 20221 min read


It's All Believable
"I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain...
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Jul 18, 20221 min read


Seriously Serious
"We've got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously," ~ Kamala Harris...
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Jul 11, 20221 min read


Independence
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with...
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Jul 4, 20222 min read


Scoffers
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of...
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Jun 27, 20221 min read


Strange
“And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.” ~ Exodus 2:22...
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Jun 20, 20221 min read


Everyone's A Critic
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one...
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Jun 13, 20221 min read


The Majority
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” - Marcus...
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Jun 6, 20221 min read


Expensive
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone." - Frederic Bastiat...
mariokiefer
May 30, 20221 min read
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