The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71

~ Vladimir Nabokov

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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

~ Thomas Sowell

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