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Ben Yturri

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Please excuse my offenses, they are my best defenses. Historian, musician, superfluous man.

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“The rulers are no longer personally accountable for their actions: they may go to war, persecute, steal, violate freedoms, fail to prepare for social or military crises, and yet never be brought to task for whatever crime or failure–they have only, they say, carried out the

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“The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not so much shame has to be overcome on the way to it.” -Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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This song gets increasingly and terrifyingly more relevant every day: Bad Moon Rising - CCR “Looks like we’re in for nasty weather. One eye taken for an eye.” …There’s a bad moon on the rise. RIP, Charlie Kirk

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Shit’s getting real. I hope the right doesn’t overreact. But emotions are so high. And emotion is the death of rationality. God help us.

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Men call the wise and understanding worthless, But those pleasing in speech will increase in understanding, Understanding is a fountain of life to those who possess it, But the instruction of those without discernment is evil. Proverbs 16:19-20

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“Anyone who cannot face up to ‘stark pessimism,’ to use Nietzche’s phrase, is not fitted for life’s greatest works.” -Oswald Spengler, 1931

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“A powerful variation of the daydreaming method involves working on projects that have a real chance of changing the world… I try to have one or more change-the-world projects going at all times.” -Scott Adams Thanks for changing the world, Scott.

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“When you can release your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, you set yourself free to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world.” -Scott Adams

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“Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. …If you manage your illusion wisely, you might get what you want, but you won’t necessarily understand why it worked.” -Scott Adams

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“Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson

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“…the one which can’t bear to be outside the pale; can’t bear to be in disfavor… wants to hear the precious words, “He’s on the right track!” Uttered, perhaps by an ass, but still an ass of high degree, an ass whose approval is gold and diamonds to a smaller ass…” -Mark Twain

“…the one which can’t bear to be outside the pale; can’t bear to be in disfavor… wants to hear the precious words, “He’s on the right track!” Uttered, perhaps by an ass, but still an ass of high degree, an ass whose approval is gold and diamonds to a smaller ass…”

-Mark Twain