Authoritarians are divined through the entrails of the history they sacrifice.  

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What profound loneliness must accompany the Amish with insightful courage, knowledge of social consequence, and a love for family. One pays respect to one’s doctrine as one pays a ransom for relationships held hostage.

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Cheer up tyrants; even history has a future.

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On Alcatraz one could escape the prison but not the island; the people, but not the necessity that sent one back to one’s fellow prisoners. It was history that made every _genuine_ escape artist a philosopher.

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The hand grips where the finger’s lie: Objectivity is what subjectivity feels in the thinnest, white gloves.

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He was the most intelligent of idiots, bobbing and weaving to every opposing question.

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Even the shy and silent Coyote must howl: Feeling lonely together is not quite _that_ lonely. The impulse from each assures relief through a resounding declaration of self-reliance.

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Envy: a value inversion of another’s merit by the clarity with which one sees it. 

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There is no moral good that does not make the _amorality_ of a fact the cornerstone of any claim of honesty. 

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When the intelligent confess that they cannot explain a matter to me, I dread the afterthought. What Newton could explain to Einstein, Einstein could not explain to Newton.

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There is either a toleration for all but the intolerant … or a intolerance for all but the tolerant, because tolerance is taken as permission.

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One who believes that God’s goodness is invincible and that all is written can step aside and let the devil have its duel with Satan … or by the inverse of the same principle, display in their intolerance an overwhelming suspicion of God’s weakness.

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