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But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#america #called #darwinism #did #embraced

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#against #american #balances #checks #country

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#between #conservatives #difference #dragons #dungeons

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#bracket #care #economic #mother #mother nature

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#good #good sign #i #perfect #right

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#anybody #charming #dunno #fool #glamorous

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#evening #expectation #go #houses #know

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay. ↗

— Alfredo Stroessner

#any #here #internal #make #paraguay

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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