Background Knowledge

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“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn’t know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

“Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)