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Law of Gravity

by Stephen Horn

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“Anti-populism is all about despair. Its attitude toward ordinary humans is bitter. Its hope for human redemption is nil. Its vision of the common good is bleak. Its dark mood gives us books with titles like In Defense of Elitism and Against Democracy.”
― Thomas Frank, The People, No: The War on Populism and the Fight for Democracy

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“Another thing I had learned in Vietnam was that there are worse things than death, such as not being able to look anyone straight in the eye, especially the man in the mirror.”
― Philip Caputo, Means Of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam

tags: vietnam-war, war-correspondent

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“We have no interest in breaking the glass ceiling while leaving the vast majority to clean up the shards. Far from celebrating women CEOs who occupy corner offices, we want to get rid of CEOs and corner offices.”
― Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

tags: anticapitalism, anticapitalist, feminism

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“if piety and patriotism ever had a bedfellow, it was violence.”
― Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone

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“When he was asked why he did not have children, he replied, "because of my love for children." And they say that when his mother tried to compel him to marry he would say, "It is not yet the right time," and then, as she insisted when he was no longer young, "It is no longer the right time.”
― Thales

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