If brick-and-mortar restaurants become mere storefronts for delivery services, they will cease to be public spaces in any sense of the term.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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Monthly Archives: November 2024
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The argument over which matters more, economics or culture, may obsess the political class, but Americans living paycheck to paycheck, ill-served by decades of financial neglect and polarizing culture wars, can’t easily separate the two. All of it—wages, migrants, police, guns, classrooms, trade, the price of gas, the meaning of the flag—can be a source of chaos or of dignity. The real question is this: Can our politics, in its current state, deliver hard-pressed Americans greater stability and independence, or will it only inflict more disruption and pain?
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Campus Life at the
Georgetown University
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I’m the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they’re all dead.
~ Mickey Spillane
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Campus Life at
Brock University
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The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift
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