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“The conditions of happiness have nothing whatever to do with outward existence. They are exclusively dependent on man’s inner attitude and streadfadtbess which enable him, even in the most trying circumstances, to form at least a notion of what life is about.”
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58k Americans died in Vietnam. Since the war ended 40k Vietnamese have been killed by leftover land mines.
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The master never abandoned “Andrei,” his childhood friend. He would set a place for him at the table and taunt his servants by saying that Andrei was smarter than the lot of them. And in anger at his children he would threaten to leave Andrei his estate. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Yes, prompted me to look at the YouTube video of his acceptance speech of the 2018 Olaf Palme award. @DanielEllsberg piped.video/7ED78YkT4wA
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“My offense is that I believed in Germany and her eventual emergence from this dark hour of error and distress, that I refused to accept that accumulation of arrogance, pride, and force that is the Nazi way of life, and that I did this as a Christian and a Jesuit.”—Alfred Delp
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“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.” —May Sarton, quoted by John Le Carré
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Heck, let’s just jump to the @OrbisBooks catalog: orbisbooks.com/?subcats=Y&pc…
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Imagine the stimulus to the economy if that extra $300 billion had been spent on infrastructure, job training, conversion to clean energy or just about anything but tax cuts for corporations and billionaires. Next message will be we can’t spend on any of this because “deficit.”
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The master encouraged healthy rivalry between his sons, often setting such challenges as diving for oysters or seeing which of them could kill the most rats in five minutes. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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