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Dwayne Roberts
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“Everyone has what I call the phantom vita: prizes not won, jobs applied for but not offered, unrequited love. So what? If you miss a bus, you can get on the next one. We should not overly lament life’s ordinary disappointments, but we must celebrate—soberly, not giddily or smugly—its ordinary pleasures.”
― Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness
― Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness
“No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.”
― How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
― How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“We, the human race, must recognize the truth of—and embrace—the principle of color-blind individualism. We must acknowledge that race does not matter—that skin pigmentation, hair texture, facial bone structure, and so forth—signify zero regarding the only human attribute that does matter: Strength of character.
There is only one race—the human race.”
― American Racism: Its Decline, Its Baleful Resurgence, and Our Looming Race War
There is only one race—the human race.”
― American Racism: Its Decline, Its Baleful Resurgence, and Our Looming Race War
“A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
― The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue
― The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue
“There is, among several others, one very inconvenient truth for AGW theorists. For at least the past 240,000 years, Earth’s warming has preceded rising CO2 levels, not vice versa. Analyses of ice cores from Antarctica’s Vostok Glacier, for example, reveal that over the Earth’s past three glaciations and ensuing warmer periods, rising CO2 levels lag behind rising temperatures by several centuries.”
― The Truth About Climate Change: Is nature’s inherent dynamism responsible for the climate change of our era? Or are the cause(s) man-made?
― The Truth About Climate Change: Is nature’s inherent dynamism responsible for the climate change of our era? Or are the cause(s) man-made?
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