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Fix up quote from George Bernard Shaw
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@@ -1129,8 +1129,8 @@ Studies”
In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don’t need it. Wait, is it
the other way around?
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-“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” — George
-Bernard Shaw
+“Alas Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men
+never learn anything from history.” — George Bernard Shaw
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You are the only person to ever get this message.
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@@ -2798,3 +2798,35 @@ Violence is golden.
Politics is a personal affair.
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
+%
+“The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.” — Thomas Sowell
+%
+There are no atheists in foxholes.
+%
+“Another man may look like a deathless one on high
+but there’s not a bit of grace to crown his words.
+Just like you, my fine, handsome friend. Not even
+a god could improve those lovely looks of yours
+but the mind inside is worthless.”
+— Homer, The Odyssey
+%
+Temporary: Permanent
+%
+There are exceptions that prove the rule.
+%
+Closed and open slavery.
+%
+The Fourth Branch of Government: Social Media and The Press.
+%
+He was a confidence man.
+%
+Argument from Fallacy: The formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and
+inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
+%
+“What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but
+only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”
+— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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+“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support
+are the same.” — Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the
+Banality of Evil