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What is history, then, I suppose you might ask next, if not the past lasting into the present. And I would reply that history is only what we keep hold of in order to explain the present in a way we like.
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“What do we learn from all of this? COVID-19 is a disease that makes some people sick, proves fatal to a few, and does nothing to the rest. Like any annual flu.”
― Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures
― Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures
“But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.”
― The Confidence-Man
― The Confidence-Man
“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.”
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“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.”
― A Far Country
― A Far Country
“Vladimir Lenin made it clear that the true goal of socialism is communism. He would know better than most of us.”
― Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America
― Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America
Penguin Classics - Reading Guide
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Penguin Classics, has put together a wide array of titles to give the motivated reader an excellent background in classic literature. http://www.us. ...more
Penguin Classics, has put together a wide array of titles to give the motivated reader an excellent background in classic literature. http://www.us. ...more
With The Banned
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This is a varied group of people with a common interest in books of all kinds. If you have any difficulty in navigating here, message a Mod, and we'll ...more
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The BURIED Book Club
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TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
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