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Blind sight
A complete dependency on being taught will yield a volume of information but hinder understanding.

Unreasonable reason
It is unreasonable to always side against faith in favor of reason, solely on the basis of an absolute faith in reason.

History and reason
In a battle for the destiny of mankind, history triumphs over reason.

Partners in conclusions
Neither reason nor faith is whole without the other; for while reason can hardly arrive at anything without faith, faith without reason will arrive at anything. Embrace both.

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Relative righteousness
Put a progressive liberal from a free society in a totalitarian state and they will soon have more credibility, even if only by virtue of what they then have to complain about.

Genius
Generally speaking, a genius is someone who must put forth effort to think inside the box in order to function.

Bonds of care
The chains of the state are not that strong; yet, because bondage is perceived as security, few who are bound thereby ever try breaking them. Yea, once accustomed, most fit themselves in them willingly.

Ideas
Having good ideas is the art of dismissing the bad ones; having no ideas is the art of finding fault with everything.

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Bought off
Too often the act of giving is the purchase price of manipulation rather than a free gift from the heart.

History repeats
They who forget the past are destined to call it progressive as they repeat it.

Descending progress
When ambitions are elevated above virtues, movement is downward regardless of perceptions.

Deletion
As great or greater than the ability to learn, is the ability to surrender long embedded falsehoods.

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Role reversal
Many of history’s fools and villains were, in their days and domains, the savants and heroes, and vice-versa.

Autopilot
Those taught too much cannot think for themselves.

Terminal politics
As a parasite which consumes the body, and yet, at the same time seals its own doom by the destruction of its host, such are they who infect the body politic.

Sailing
Just as many discoveries were made in inferior ships, one may possess less than a great mind and yet find great things. More important than the power of the intellect is the course that is taken; many a great mind has been lost at sea.

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Harlot diplomacy
Attempting to manipulate evil by appeasement is a type of prostitution that often ends with the rape and murder of the appeaser, especially after payment.

The cost of arrogance
Arrogance is a thief which steals all virtue from those who leave the door of pride unlocked.

Tools
The mind is a tool box; the things you know are tools. Nonetheless, an impressive collection of tools does not insure proper use; and a misuse of superior tools can be even more destructive.

Potato Head fascism
Fascism, like Mr. Potato Head, comes with an option of pieces which can be selected to present various faces; still, friendly or fierce they are all plastic and attach to one and the same body.

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Circle of consequences
The distance between the ideologies of the left and right is not linear, but circular. The destiny of those who travel too far in either direction is mutual.

Insanity
Insanity is ‘reason’ without God.

Answers’ irony
The greatest dangers the world ever faces are at conception imagined as solutions.

Common senseless
Even the biggest fool may be perceived as a man of knowledge if he possesses enough information and an ability to communicate.

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Benevolent destroyers
The most destructive individuals the world has known have been those who seized power to implement their vision of a ‘good’ society.

Removing evil
There are two ways cultures attempt to eliminate evil, one is by the condemnation of it, the other by the normalization of it and the removal of its definition as being evil.

Faith and reason
Reason is a dependent of faith in that reason requires belief in facts, and a trust that those facts either will or will not remain constant. It is therefore, reason cannot exceed faith, being that it relies upon faith. Still, neither is faith valid without reason.

How much love
Love is not to be measured by emotions or a lack thereof. It is a test of sacrifice and suffering which pushes love to the limits that reveals love’s strength. Where love goes untested, both the quantity and the quality of that which lies within will be over or under estimated.

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Who?
Question authority; but equally so, question the questioners of authority. How often it is one evil is overthrown by no less of another.

Giving is receiving
True contentment is relative to pure sacrifice.

Moral adversary
Whenever morality is overthrown, it is almost always with a battle cry of ‘justice’.

Past is present
The past is a time traveler that dresses in the latest fashions.

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Futile victory
Even when evil triumphs it loses; success paves the road to its downfall; and victory increases the weight of judgment against it.

Emotions and reason
Excessive emotional outbursts evidence a deficiency of rational.

Mental warfare
He who controls perceptions rules minds; and, they who are conquered in thought are defeated in fact.

Value
The value of any material thing exists merely as a perception; worth is determined by events and circumstances rather than substance.

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Elusive lusts
Obsessing over that which you cannot have will rob you of that which you can.

Subjective judgment
To judge a matter subjectively before the proper conclusion, or to judge it anyway but subjectively afterward, is folly.

Looking back ahead
Those who look into the mirror of the past see ahead much more clearly than those who merely envision the future.

Men of mass destruction
History has shown us that the most dangerous men are not lurking in the shadows, but rather, standing before adorning crowds, and to a great many, sounding more reasonable than anyone else.