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When these two together, faith and reason, get together, when they shake hands they ward off the Gnostic catastrophe. And it's always a catastrophe, and it's always going to get taken over by tyrants or run itself into the destructive ground. This is the secret sauce of the West, you can write it down, it's faith bolstered and checked by reason and reason supported and checked by faith, that's what makes the West work.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
The swirl of their buzzwords—“access,” “stigma,” “progressive,” “diversity,” “crisis,” etc.—shows a discernible pattern. What these innumerable buzzwords have in common is that they either (1) preempt issues rather than debate them, (2) set the anointed and the benighted on different moral and intellectual planes, or (3) evade the issue of personal responsibility.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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