"There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"And you've got a lot of people sayin' lets not topple the dictatorship in Venezuela even though it threatened the US and other countries and is collapsing and the people are begging don't do it and I …"

— Alex Jones

Journalism1974

#politics

"Kofi Annan: Profile by Phyllis Bennis of the Global Policy Forum"

— Kofi Annan

Politics1938–2018

#politics

"The easy problems of consciousness are those that seem directly susceptible to the standard methods of cognitive science, whereby a phenomenon is explained in terms of computational or neural mechanis…"

— David Chalmers

Social Activism1966

#mind

"Man—vir, woman—femina, go to make up the man—homo. There can be no comparison, no rivalry between them; they are the complement of each other, and a little child shall lead them."

— Margaret Barber

Literature1869–1901

#family