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The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and capacity to dictate who may live and who must die. Achille Mbembe - Necropolitics - 2003

The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Donald Trump

Faith is a beautiful thing. So are forest fires, and the color of gangrene. I think faith—especially capital-F Faith—is more dangerous and more disgusting than either. It is a substitute for thought. Theodore Sturgeon

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Neal Stephenson

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me. Robert A. Heinlein

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