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"Epater les wokesoisie"
 
  
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"I've always said the most useful part of game theory is just describing Players, Actions, and Payoffs. Now I'm wondering whether it might be just the idea of putting yourself in someone else's place.     I was just talking with people today about a situation where most  observers don't know them personally but do know someone on on the other side,  so they'll be blamed whether they deserve it or not."
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*You can get what you want with a kind word, or you can get it with a gun. But the gun is more likely to work. See https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/03/kind-gun/. See Machiavelli on Love and Fear.  
  
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"Bubblehead: A member of the Liberal Establishment who is trapped within the New York Times echo chamber,  unable to conceive that people in other times and places could disagree with him unless they were evil, unable to read Limbaugh, Churchill,  Plato, or a calculus text without mental anguish."
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*"pretty dubious deference"
  
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We who are canaries in the coal mine should perhaps "sing like a canary".  
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*{{Quotation| In 1835 Disraeli and Daniel O'Connell quarrelled publicly over press reports that O'Connell had been called a 'traitor and incendiary' by Disraeli. The pair were to fight a duel but the police intervened and Disraeli was bound over to keep the peace. This was the first of their confrontations. In a heated debate in parliament, O'Connell referred to Disraeli's Jewish ancestry in disparaging terms to which Disraeli responded:
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:Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.}}
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See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli#1830s. Probably apocryphal.  
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Latest revision as of 07:35, 14 September 2021

This is for potentially useful phrases.

  • "pretty dubious deference"


  • In 1835 Disraeli and Daniel O'Connell quarrelled publicly over press reports that O'Connell had been called a 'traitor and incendiary' by Disraeli. The pair were to fight a duel but the police intervened and Disraeli was bound over to keep the peace. This was the first of their confrontations. In a heated debate in parliament, O'Connell referred to Disraeli's Jewish ancestry in disparaging terms to which Disraeli responded:

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli#1830s. Probably apocryphal.
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