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Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

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Richard L. Johnson
Dec 02, 2021
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Culture is taken to be a very high thing, but can one reasonably say, “I will die for my culture,” as men used to say that they would die for their god or their country? Culture is, at least partly, a timid way for halfbelievers to have the advantages of religion without religion. - Allan Bloom

Tyranny is born from weakness. Weakness is born from a failu…

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