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“If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.”
Hannah Arendt
"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“A new ignorance is on the horizon, an ignorance borne not of a lack of knowledge but of too much knowledge, too much data, too many theories, too little time.”
Eugene Thacker
“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as a sign of virtue and intellect.”
Lionel Trilling
"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone."
Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
"Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others."
Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
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