At that's what at its heart, makes it sad. Longing for the past because it seemed better more so cause it seemed "simpler" is an awful empty philosophy, but it has become a mantra of how our culture lives.
May be true when you're young. But when you pass middle age it becomes much more appealing!
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At that's what at its heart, makes it sad. Longing for the past because it seemed better more so cause it seemed "simpler" is an awful empty philosophy, but it has become a mantra of how our culture lives.
Actually I think you can also be nostalgic for a better future. Even better yet, you can work for a better future.
CONservative governMENt
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
those who do not study history and learn from it are doomed to repete it
Godfather.