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“Every Cook Can Govern,” which imagines labor unions reviving ancient Greek direct democracy by appointing officeholders at random from the community.20 What would our politics look like, he asks, if we really believed that each of us has the right and ability to self-govern? What kinds of people could we cultivate if we held that trust in each oth
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dialectics,
Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
I discovered her. Charmante, a perfect Gretchen,4 and we’ve already become acquainted. The prettiest little thing, really!’
Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
People live by love: love of yourself is the beginning of death; love of other people and of God is the beginning of life.
Leo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
Un jour, chargés de délivrer un groupe français encerclé, ses cavaliers hésitaient devant la ligne ennemie d’où partait un feu décimant. Le capitaine Colet jeta son képi par-dessus les retranchements et les Tcherkesses se ruèrent au galop pour ne pas le laisser prendre. Des gestes pareils, on m’en a cité à foison, mais ils ne suffisent point pour p
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