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After Virtue

by Alasdair MacIntyre

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David said: " One of the best books I have read. Page after page of fantastic thought provoking ideas!. It was a struggle to get through the book as it involves so many complicated philosophical concepts. I found myself sometimes read at an astonishingly slow pace ...more "

Feb 08, 2023 01:35PM · see review

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“Computer-controlled machines have eliminated precisely the jobs created for a host of machine operators during the Second Industrial Revolution. The workers that were once pulled into decent-paying jobs in mass-production industries are now being pushed out.”
― Carl Benedikt Frey, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

tags: wisdom

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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

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“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: devil, lucifer, satan

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“You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: communism, history, marxism, russian-revolution

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