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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

  • Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

  • I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.

  • I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

  • Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

  • Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

  • Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

  • The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

  • The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  • Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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