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Existence is impermanent. Don’t become attached to this world. It’s not real. It won’t last.
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Well, lest we forget, nobody gets out of this alive.
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Thomas Sowell
“In short, honesty is more than a moral principle. It is also a major economic factor. While government can do little to create honesty directly, in various ways it can indirectly either support or undermine the traditions on which honest conduct is based. This it can do by what it teaches in its schools, by the examples set by public officials, or by the laws that it passes. These laws can create incentives toward either moral or immoral conduct. Where laws create a situation in which the only way to avoid ruinous losses is by violating the law, the government is in effect reducing public respect for laws in general, as well as rewarding specific dishonest behavior.”
Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

“That you are the single person in the world who makes me more than what everyone else sees: that you created me, that in your mind lives the person I wish to be.”
Daniel Mason, A Far Country

Herman Melville
“But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.”
Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man

“Vladimir Lenin made it clear that the true goal of socialism is communism. He would know better than most of us.”
Kathy Barnette, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America

John Taylor Gatto
“I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic — it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

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