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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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Jan 18, 2023 11:14AM
his is indeed a great quote. The United States government is massive and there is much "make work" in many departments, not all, of course. It is fascinating that so many departments can exist that just "make up work". And the final irony about the "intelligence" agencies and departments is they have been wrong or have not identified major crises: Kennedy assassination, fall USSR, revolution in Iran toppling the Shah, No WMDs in Iraq, 9/11, financial meltdown of 2008, etc And there is no accountability ever.
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