Okay, True North may not be worth knowing, but North of North is!
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I’ll be sure to Inuk into it.
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This made me think of his nephew, who exclaimed to the Kaiser, “Your Majesty, we have lost the war,” soon after World War I started.
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“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
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“O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
—Isabella, in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
– William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men
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To be rich and independent is very nearly an impossibility if you include electricity, roads, air traffic control, the internet, healthcare, schools, manufactured products, etc., etc.
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This.
Most people who have never known anything but wealth do not realize this. If anything, they are more dependent, because they don’t know what to do when anything goes wrong and money doesn’t immediately solve the issue.
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Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. Hildegard Von Bingen
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