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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
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“There is truth in wine and children”
― Symposium / Phaedrus
― Symposium / Phaedrus
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
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“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”
― Critique of the Gotha Program
― Critique of the Gotha Program
Scott’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Scott’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
214 books
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10 friends
141 books
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14 friends
10 books
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1 friend
0 books
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1 friend
1 book
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1 friend
1 book
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1 friend
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