Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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| — | Tom Stoppard |
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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| — | John Kenneth Galbraith |
We all believe in equality, of course—especially for ourselves, whenever we’re feeling oppressed and exploited by people who think they’re better than we are. Yet once we achieve the desired cookie-cutter parity with others, we very quickly develop a taste for liberty—i.e., the freedom to think of ourselves not as equal, but as better than our fellows and, furthermore, as possessing a god-given right to exploit them.
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| — | Kenneth Kirkeby, 4/5/11 |
Exorcism Luncheon (12/1/10)
P: it's fun to be told that I'm going to hell
Me: actually, for me that was annoying. all my high school friends were christian, so lunch started with a prayer circle
P: are you sure it wasn't an exorcism?
P: hint: if you were sitting at the center of a cross in the middle of the circle, they were trying to drive away the demons
