“My mistress hath most trembling nerves; The buzz of a musquito doth alarm her so, She straightway falleth into frightful fits."

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HÄGAR THE HORRIBLE Dik Browne 10.19.79
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There is always Room and Board at the Top. - George Ade
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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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"This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature." Edmund Burke
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“If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.” — Jordan Peterson
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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
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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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“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -Henry Ford
Surround yourself with people who see a flying car and say, "Awesome!" Not people who see a flying car and say, "It's not actually flying" or "I don't see the point." This post is not about cars :)
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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.
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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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Nothing liberates like confronting your own contradictions.
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☦️ St. Justin Popovich
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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
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“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy
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