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“The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see”

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Ian Caldwell, born in 1976, is an accomplished American novelist. His works are known for their profound themes and engaging narrative style, which have won him a dedicated following. more

“What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.”

Stills Earth Air Return Breathe Shock Stopping Oxygen Calculating Drudgery Flicker

Author:Peter Viereck

“Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.”

Trying Different Government Earth Individual Democracy Citizens Superiors Revolutionary

Book:Conservatism Revisited

Source: Conservatism Revisited

“I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.”

Thinking Believe I Can Facts Reality Failing Don't Believe Defined Going Away Again And Again Attempting Gallant

Author:Peter Viereck

“Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.”

Men Hard Meditation Modern Reflection Speed Driven Stability Distraction Refugee Pilgrim Modern Man Nomad Wanderers Escapists

Author:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.”

Persons Faces Values Evil Accepting Doubt Possibility Absolutes Conviction Genuine Indifferent Polite Defenseless

Author:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.”

People Way Giving Evil Weak Temptation Bent

Book:Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

Source: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

“Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.”

Littles Said Stills Today Nations Doubt Alive Democratic Congress Envy Minorities Cents Live For Today

Book:Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times

Source: Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times

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