Rep. Nick Begich, Sen. Dan Sullivan, heed this advice: “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ― Leo Tolstoy as attributed to Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations.”

— Richie Goldstein, Anchorage

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