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Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that a people “that shortens its weapons lengthens its ...

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The other day I was taking a hike in a wilderness area, when I felt the pressure of my phone in my pocket, ...

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Old-time sailors would sometimes get the phrase “hold fast” tattooed across their fingers. It ...

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