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Our First FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged
A Publius Essay
| 15 January 2009
| Publius
Posted on 01/15/2009 10:32:08 AM PST by Publius
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To: Still Thinking
The original language. Alexander lives in Germany.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:06:14 PM PST
by
Publius
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: Publius
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:14:03 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Publius
As a Conservative who has not been conditioned through college and working where I work...this seems interesting...therefore ...sign me up.
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:25:22 PM PST
by
Paige
("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
To: Publius
Of course, count me in спасѝбо!
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posted on
01/16/2009 4:33:15 PM PST
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: Publius
Could you add me to your ping list, Publius?
Thanks
sneakers
To: Publius
266
posted on
01/16/2009 7:14:21 PM PST
by
Bigun
("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
To: Taxman; Publius
"... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one MAKES them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ......just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." - p.411, Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED, Signet Books, NY, 1957
That sums the entire book up for me because it is so very true!
It precisely describes where we find ourselves today!
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posted on
01/16/2009 7:24:32 PM PST
by
Bigun
("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
To: Publius
Publius,
Please put me on this ping list.
Thanks.
To: Publius
Publius,
Please put me on this ping list.
Thanks.
To: Publius
Please add me to the ping list. Thanks.
270
posted on
01/16/2009 7:38:52 PM PST
by
groanup
To: Bigun
271
posted on
01/16/2009 8:18:24 PM PST
by
Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
To: higgmeister
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posted on
01/16/2009 8:19:01 PM PST
by
Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
To: Publius
Sounds like a plan to me.
Carry on!
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posted on
01/16/2009 8:20:00 PM PST
by
Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
To: Bigun
ATLAS SHRUGGED, Signet Books, NY, 1957That is the one I have and boy has it yellowed and brittled.
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posted on
01/16/2009 8:20:13 PM PST
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: Publius
Please put me on your ping list.
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:14:16 PM PST
by
Hostage
To: Publius
Ping me. I am reading it again.
To: Publius
To: Still Thinking
Suppose that I'll have to order it online, since I want it in the original.The original what?
The original English. All the bookstores in my country of residence offer the book in German, only.
Regards,
To: Publius
Got to go to the book store this week.
To: higgmeister
My original copy has long since gone by the wayside but I have purchased many copies since, both for myself and for others whom I felt would benefit from reading it.
I currently own only a late model paperback version the small print of which gives me fits at my age.
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posted on
01/17/2009 6:01:00 AM PST
by
Bigun
("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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