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March 13, 2009

QotD: Motivation

It is a deformity in some 'radicals' to imagine that, once they have found the lowest or meanest motive for an action or for a person, they have correctly identified the 'authentic' or 'real' one. Many a purge or show trial has got merrily under way in this manner.

Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, 2006

Posted by Nicholas at March 13, 2009 02:18 PM
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