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Note at start:while I appreciate a rehash of some of the preceding timeline (its been a while since I read the preceding book), having two full chapters of it, one from the US perspective and one from the Japanese perspective and with that telling th ...more "
And right there a limit appeared – drawing a line between griping and any actual idea of rebellion. They were all ready to howl in protest and jeer at their country and its ‘stuffed shirts’ however they wanted – but if somebody tried to
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“One of the unfortunate facts about being interested in nearly everything is that the depth of your knowledge is bound to remain inversely proportional to its range; the more you know en masse, the less you tend to know about a particular, narrow topic.”
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“I would rather have a set of questions that we haven't found the answers for, yet, than having a whole set of answers that I'm not even permitted to challenge, questions, dig in on.”
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“When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you.”
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“If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike.”
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“Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism.”
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