And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
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The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Specialization is for insects.
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American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
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The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
