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    Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

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Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.

Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.

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I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

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Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.

Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.

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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in read more

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

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Let the sun shine in.

Let the sun shine in.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will read more

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

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