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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#anarchist #politics #experience

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative. ↗

— John Bolton

#negative #personal #politics #very

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence. ↗

— David Wooster

#country #dying #gain #her #hope

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#him #more #others #person #say

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#kind #looks #person #picasso #sausage

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#social-anxiety #solitude #beauty

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making. ↗

— Kit Bond

#blow #clear #end #heard #indication

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third. ↗

— Kit Bond

#administration #business #businesses #family #generation

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. ↗

— Kit Bond

#chief #commander #did #enough #experience