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@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. — Thomas Sowell in A
 Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of
 Political Struggles
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-For the love of life, there’s a trade-off. We could loose it all — but we’ll
+For the love of life, there’s a trade–off. We could loose it all – but we’ll
 go down fighting. — David Sylvian
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 The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
@@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born
 to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz, “Social
 Studies”
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-In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don’t need it. Wait, is it
+In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don’t need it. Wait, isn't it
 the other way around?
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 “Alas Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men
@@ -2902,3 +2902,70 @@ Consequentialist: The end justifies the means.
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 But does it scale?
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+Can two walk together, except they be agreed? — Amos
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+Dualism: Left, Right. Black, White.
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+Nature imputes duality.
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+“People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral
+superiority.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed:
+Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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+Artificial Intelligence: /dev/random
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+Cargo Cult: A millenarian belief system in which adherents perform
+rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced
+society to deliver goods.
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+Theosis: Unity with God.
+Henosis: Unity with the Monad.
+Transhumanism: Unity with the Machine.
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+“If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily
+“socially constructed” notions, then all that is left is consensus–more
+specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to
+adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.” ― Thomas Sowell,
+Intellectuals and Society
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+“Many intellectuals are so preoccupied with the notion that their
+own special knowledge exceeds the average special knowledge of
+millions of other people that they overlook the often far more
+consequential fact that their mundane knowledge is not even one–tenth
+of the total mundane knowledge of those millions.” — Thomas
+Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
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+Augustine’s 49th Law: Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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+Don’t make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything.
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+(1) Don’t think.
+(2) If you do think, don’t speak.
+(3) If you think and speak, don’t write.
+(4) If you think, speak and write, don’t sign.
+(5) If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised.
+— Polish Joke
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+In politics, temporary means permanent.
+%
+In politics, the temporary becomes the permanent.
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+The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough
+voters to win the next election.
+%
+Farmer: “You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!”
+Boy: “Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.”
+— How to Sell a Dead Donkey
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+The bait and switch is the oldest trick in the book.
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+If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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+Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, it abruptly ends.
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+Do the old eat the young?
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+No, we want a king to rule over us.
+%
+Please confirm my bias.