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“Anyone who can’t tell the difference between an ordinary Bernie Sanders supporter and a Stalinist revolutionary, or between Donald Trump’s average voter and a Nazi, is either willfully ignorant or needs to get out of the house more. Today, our public discourse is shockingly hyperbolic in ascribing historically murderous ideologies to the tens of millions of ordinary Americans with whom we strongly disagree. Just because you disagree with something doesn’t mean it’s hate speech or the person saying it is a deviant.”
― Arthur C Brooks, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

“Poetic truth—this assertion of a broad characteristic “truth” that invalidates actual truth—is contemporary liberalism’s greatest source of power. It is also liberalism’s most fundamental corruption.”
― Shelby Steele, Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country

“When do we lie most? Community surveys show it’s on our first date with a new person. And this gives us a clue as to why we lie so much—it’s impression management.”
― Adrian Raine, The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous