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France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that’s why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it’s like shouting in a forest. There’s no echo.
~ Marc Chagall
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The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.
~ Timothy Snyder
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An economy that gives most people the chance for a decent life doesn’t arise by accident or through impersonal forces.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion