When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an … - George Scialabba

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To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder. . . The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

George Scialabba

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

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Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.

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The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

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If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out. . get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something, don't freak out. . there's nothing you can do to change it. . just move on

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I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

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There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

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