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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
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“The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.”40”
― Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
― Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
“A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”
― A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage
― A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage
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David Bowie's Top 100 Books
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If you're moved by music, join us in remembering a hero, a weirdo, an innovator, a genius, a legend. In 2013 David Bowie posted a list of his 100 favo ...more
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