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Christopher
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“The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.”
― The Thirty Years War
― The Thirty Years War
“Whatever Americans fondly believe, their government has always had its fingers in the economic pie. What distinguishes the USA from every other developed country has been the widespread belief to the contrary.”
― Ill Fares the Land
― Ill Fares the Land
“Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent.”
― Thinking the Twentieth Century
― Thinking the Twentieth Century
“The moral courage required to hold a different view and to press it upon irritated readers or unsympathetic listeners remains everywhere in short supply.”
― Ill Fares the Land
― Ill Fares the Land
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