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Person on a Train

2017-11-29 · 2,238 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Person on a Train — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Weak and miserable as I am, I can still stand up to the terrible tragedy of life and prevail!" "The truth is something
Person on a Train — pen and ink drawing

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"Weak and miserable as I am, I can still stand up to the terrible tragedy of life and prevail!"

"The truth is something that burns, it burns off deadwood and people don't like having their deadwood burnt off often because they're 95% deadwood"

"Ideologues assume the problems of the world are someone else's fault. Or they assume that broadscale systemic change (according to their dictates) is a prerequisite to utopia. A truly religious person tries to change him or herself, which is a more difficult and less grand task."

"Why do you think ideological thought is pushed so heavily at the universities? 1/3 laziness, 1/3 ignorance and 1/3 malevolence. Laziness: it's easier to apply a doctrine to…

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