- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
- Government Programs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020