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"This book started alowly, but now I can barely put it down! Fascinating discussion about how Julian tried to institute government charity. The author argues it was because he saw that church bishops had become truly powerful - raising large sums for the poor with extensive client lists. Makes me think that is why the modern governments insist on running welfare today-to take power to itself and away from churches." — Feb 21, 2026 03:23PM
"This book started alowly, but now I can barely put it down! Fascinating discussion about how Julian tried to institute government charity. The author argues it was because he saw that church bishops had become truly powerful - raising large sums for the poor with extensive client lists. Makes me think that is why the modern governments insist on running welfare today-to take power to itself and away from churches." — Feb 21, 2026 03:23PM
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"The build-up to actual shooting was a very dramatic time. There is a spy in the Amercan camp - one that was not exposed for a century! There are moves and counter moves. Our hero, Joseph Warren, works to lower the rhetoric because the British had to be seen as the initiators of hostilities, all while pushing the "country folk" to be ready for any attack by the British regulars. A very intense time!" — Feb 07, 2026 04:11AM
"The build-up to actual shooting was a very dramatic time. There is a spy in the Amercan camp - one that was not exposed for a century! There are moves and counter moves. Our hero, Joseph Warren, works to lower the rhetoric because the British had to be seen as the initiators of hostilities, all while pushing the "country folk" to be ready for any attack by the British regulars. A very intense time!" — Feb 07, 2026 04:11AM
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""Labor unrest contributed to the economy's sudden collapse in 1937." But then goes on to argue that the decision to balance the federal budget was the real cause of the "Roosevelt recession." But that makes no sense. If you're using borrowed money to pay people to do "make-work" jobs, the economy had never really recovered in the first place!" — Feb 15, 2026 06:10AM
""Labor unrest contributed to the economy's sudden collapse in 1937." But then goes on to argue that the decision to balance the federal budget was the real cause of the "Roosevelt recession." But that makes no sense. If you're using borrowed money to pay people to do "make-work" jobs, the economy had never really recovered in the first place!" — Feb 15, 2026 06:10AM
“Since time is no longer cyclical but one-way and irreversible, personal history is now possible and an individual life can have value.”
― The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
― The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
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“no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
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“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a marriage, or even do a quadratic equation, yet they believe they know how to rule the world. The university, in which it is possible to combine theoretical pretension with comprehensive ineptitude, has become the natural habitat of the ideological enthusiast. A kind of adventure playground, carefully insulated from reality in order to prevent absent-minded professors from bumping into things as they explore transcendental realms, has become the institutional base for civilizational self-hatred.”
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Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism
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