These aren't interests. These are quotes:Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them...Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves...If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live...Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly...It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that...Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it...I have never let my schooling interfere with my education...Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes...Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for...I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear...Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them...We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special...We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it...Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions...All science is either physics or stamp collecting...And that's the truth
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Anything Vonnegut, Clancy, or Grisham, Cry the beloved country, Democracy in America, Waiting for Godot, The Unbearable lightness of being, Hamlet, Special topics in Calamity Physics, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, A Man Without a Country, Dulce Et Decorum Est (okay that's not a book, but it's awesome), Big Trouble, The Old Man and the Sea, Anna Karenina, The Nightside, The Lord of the Rings, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, No Exit, The Stranger, Oedipus Rex, The Book Of Revelation, The book of Matthew, Peasants in Distress, The Audacity of Hope, Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them, The Truth, various insundry others
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