October 2011
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“There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati, the ‘love of your fate,’...”
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent...”
– In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh,
had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
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“Those who justify themselves do not convince.”
– Lau Tzu 