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  • 8 Penetrating Quotes from Will Durant

    8 Penetrating Quotes from Will Durant0

    1. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”     2. “The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.”     3. “It is a mistake to think that the

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  • 8 Penetrating Quotes from Elie Wiesel

    8 Penetrating Quotes from Elie Wiesel0

    1) “Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.” 2) “If you ask me what I want to achieve, it’s to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.” 3) “Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.” 4) “I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in

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  • 8 Historic Cases That Show the FBI and CIA Were Out of Control Long Before Russiagate

    8 Historic Cases That Show the FBI and CIA Were Out of Control Long Before Russiagate0

    Conservatives tend to have two bad habits. First, they’re prone to viewing the past through a nostalgic lens. Second, they tend to instinctively give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. These tendencies help explain why conservatives for decades have been able to overlook the many abuses—constitutional, legal, and moral—of US intelligence agencies. Unlike some

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  • 8 Highly Insightful Quotes from Neil Postman

    8 Highly Insightful Quotes from Neil Postman0

    1. “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”    2. “At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to

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  • 8 Frightening Characteristics of Propaganda

    8 Frightening Characteristics of Propaganda2

    • August 21, 2015

    Jacques Ellul’s Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1965) has been called “a far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell.” In it, the French philosopher and sociologist dispels some of the popular notions about propaganda and exposes how it really operates in the modern world. In the first chapter

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  • 8 Founding Father Quotes on Human Nature

    8 Founding Father Quotes on Human Nature0

    America’s Founding Fathers were the men who “gave us stars to steer by,” in the words of David McCullough. Their values shaped their vision, which in turn shaped the great American Experiment undertaken in 1776. The Framers were rather fond of looking back on antiquity to better understand the human story. It helped them better

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