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"Enjoying it so far. Applebaum is center right, which means we are certainly not going to see eye-to-eye on much. But she's an old-school (pre-MAGA / John McCain / Burkean) conservative, so I'm doing my best to keep an open mind and ignore her occasionally unfair jabs at the left." — 7 hours, 42 min ago
"Enjoying it so far. Applebaum is center right, which means we are certainly not going to see eye-to-eye on much. But she's an old-school (pre-MAGA / John McCain / Burkean) conservative, so I'm doing my best to keep an open mind and ignore her occasionally unfair jabs at the left." — 7 hours, 42 min ago
In the course of my own journey, I would come to realize that those same sorts of educational structures—encoded not just in architecture but also in software, laws of the land, traditions, organizational rules, and unspoken norms—had
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“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
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“Since all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or indirect, we cannot act until we know whether, and why, we have the right to kill.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel
“But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel
“...I learned that love between two people will last as long as one of them is around to feel it.”
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The Pale King
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DFW - The Broom of the System (group read)
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