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It was also around this time at through a dexterous sleight of hand, Progressivism came to be renamed “liberalism.” In the past, liberalism had referred to political and economic liberty as understood by Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith. For them, the ultimate desideratum was maximum individual freedom under the benign protection of a minimalist state. The progressives, led by Dewey, subtly changed the meaning of this term, importing the Prussian vision of liberalism as the alleviation of material and educational poverty, and liberation from old dogmas and old faiths. For progressives liberty no longer meant freedom from tyranny, but freedom from want, freedom to be a “constructive” citizen, the Rousseauian and Hegelian “freedom” of living in accord with the state and the general will.

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from , p. 221 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 8/14/2010 at 5:42 pm
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A little sleep,
a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

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from (Proverbs 24:33) [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/13/2010 at 8:39 am
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Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.

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from , p. 15 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 3:03 pm
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Poets are commonly spoken of as psychologically unreliable; and generally there is a vague association between wreathing laurels in your hair and sticking straws in it.

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from , p. 15 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 3:00 pm
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Oddities do not strike odd people.

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from , p. 15 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 2:59 pm
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If you consulted your business experience instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

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from , p. 13 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 2:57 pm
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I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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from , p. 12 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 2:55 pm
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I have discovered, not that they were not truths, but simply that they were not mine. When I fancied that I stood alone I was really in the ridiculous position of being backed up by all Christendom.

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from , p. 11-12 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 2:53 pm
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I am the man who with the utmost daring discovered what had been discovered before.

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from , p. 11 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 2:50 pm
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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn’t.

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from , p. 11 [source link]
Kevin Smith added this on 7/11/2010 at 2:49 pm
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