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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political
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“Ulpian, a jurist (d. ca. 229 CE), explained the basic principles of Roman law this way: “The rules of law are to live honestly, to harm no person, and to give to each his due.”
― A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500
― A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500
“Dedication To all my enemies: I could not have done it without you.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”
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“Hydrogen is an odorless colorless gas which, given enough time, turns into people”
― Cosmology: The Science of the Universe
― Cosmology: The Science of the Universe
“Seventy years of communism had destroyed the work ethic of an entire nation. Millions of Russians had been sent to the gulags for showing the slightest hint of personal initiative. The Soviets severely penalized independent thinkers, so the natural self-preservation reaction was to do as little as possible and hope that nobody would notice you.”
― Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
― Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
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