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BERTRAND RUSSELL ON DICTATORS

George Orwell:
Mr. Russell points out that the huge system of organized lying upon which the dictators depend keeps their followers out of contact with reality and therefore tends to put them at a disadvantage as against those who know the facts.

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NAZIS AND SOCIALISTS (AND THE KKK)

Mildred Harnack:
The official name of the Nazi Party is the Nationalsozialisticishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), Mildred explains, or the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, “although it has nothing to do with socialism and the name itself is a lie.

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MY EXPERIENCE IS WHAT I ATTEND TO

William James:
Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience.

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THE BURDEN OF WRITING

George Orwell:
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.

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FOSS AND PLAIN TEXT

It’s not unusual for someone writing a blog like this to describe the process they use to write text and get it up on the web.

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WHAT TO READ IN RETIREMENT

When I retired from the big full-time academic work over three years ago, I donated several boxes of books to my university library.

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