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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#confiscation #conquest #had #history #invariably

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#any #deeply #did #european #felt

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#feel #friends #group #guys #helped

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#calm #echo #environment #hear #starts

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. ↗

— Alex Noble

#continues #journey #place #rather #spirit

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#am #any #constantly #difficult #easy

The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock—more than a maple—universe. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#beauty #spirituality #universe #beauty

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#becoming #diverse #example #for example #forms

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#black and white #either #productive #see #simple