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"The unreliability is becoming clearer and clearer. Stevens can’t be honest with us nor himself. And it is sad. He has his achievements that he is proud is that are clearly sullied by history. He claims to deny where he worked, but gives half baked reasons one can see straight through. Claims that greatness is defined by quality work for a proper end. But, he can’t bear to consider what if it is all nullified." — Mar 19, 2026 05:12AM
"The unreliability is becoming clearer and clearer. Stevens can’t be honest with us nor himself. And it is sad. He has his achievements that he is proud is that are clearly sullied by history. He claims to deny where he worked, but gives half baked reasons one can see straight through. Claims that greatness is defined by quality work for a proper end. But, he can’t bear to consider what if it is all nullified." — Mar 19, 2026 05:12AM
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"Dominy giving me heavy Robert Moses vibes. Begins idealistically, becomes a crusader, ends as a zealot. Appointed bureaucrat and not elected (eventually to head of bureau of reclamation). Threats to resign as a tool to maintain power. Eventual detachment from reality (Dams instead of freeways). Petty and grudge holding. Fascinating chapter. Re his upcoming, projects, new building." — Feb 11, 2026 12:47PM
"Dominy giving me heavy Robert Moses vibes. Begins idealistically, becomes a crusader, ends as a zealot. Appointed bureaucrat and not elected (eventually to head of bureau of reclamation). Threats to resign as a tool to maintain power. Eventual detachment from reality (Dams instead of freeways). Petty and grudge holding. Fascinating chapter. Re his upcoming, projects, new building." — Feb 11, 2026 12:47PM
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
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