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Pegi is Currently Reading

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The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast

by Tom Holland

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Feb 21, 2024 08:29PM

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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

by Paul Dickson

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Jul 28, 2017 06:05PM

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

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“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
― H. L. Mencken, Heliogabalus

tags: love-war

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“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
― H. L. Mencken, Minority Report

tags: democracy

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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

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“Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: equality, privilege, rights

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