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The good intentions of socialism run up against the hard limits of human nature and reality. In seeking to overcome these limits, socialism necessarily becomes a totalitarian tyranny. Furthermore, it is the worst kind of tyranny, that of the well-intentioned tyrant who tyrannizes you for your own good and with a clear conscience.
Don’t Get Fooled Again: The Continuing Necessity of Anti-Communism
Murray Bessette
“Time is a flat circle,” Rustin Cohle says in the first season of *True Detective*. “Everything we have done or will do, we will do over and over and over again, forever.”
Time Is a Flat Circle
dailystoic.com
For our purposes, we will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire. Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
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