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Take notes. Everything is copy.

Nora Ephron

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Peter Thiel, tra kathécon e Jihad Butleriano

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Da leggere.

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Loving Annabelle (2006)

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CLOSER (2004), dir. Mike Nichols

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MJ Lenderman - Wristwatch

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Sofia Coppola, 1994 | © Derek Ridgers

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"To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them… government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served.”

Milton Friedman

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© Marina Faust | Martin Margiela

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“Lo stile e la struttura sono l'essenza di un libro; le grandi idee sono inutili.”

Vladimir Nabokov

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I marxisti non sono disposti ad ammettere che anche i nazisti sono socialisti. - Ludwig Von Mises

Parentele, della serie il frutto non cade mai lontano dalla pianta.

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“The plain citizens are mistaken in complaining that the bureaucrats have arrogated powers; they themselves and their mandatories have abandoned their sovereignty. Their ignorance of fundamental problems of economics has made the professional specialists supreme. All technical and juridical details of legislation can and must be left to the experts. But democracy becomes impracticable if the eminent citizens, the intellectual leaders of the community, are not in a position to form their own opinion on the basic social, economic, and political principles of policies. If the citizens are under the intellectual hegemony of the bureaucratic professionals, society breaks up into two castes: the ruling professionals, the Brahmins, and the gullible citizenry. Then despotism emerges, whatever the wording of constitutions and laws may be.

Democracy means self-determination. How can people determine their own affairs if they are too indifferent to gain through their own thinking an independent judgment on fundamental political and economic problems? Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.” - Ludwig von Mises, ‘Bureaucracy’ (1944) [p. 120, 121]