I don’t care what the editor likes or dislikes, I care what the people like.
~ Mickey Spillane
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~ George Orwell
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The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.
~ Milan Kundera
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Why did the Reaganites do this? They were in thrall to the idea that the highest, in fact the only, valid goal of economic policy is efficiency—defined narrowly as the maximum output for the lowest prices. And they believed that Big Business was inherently efficient.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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The liberal arts inarguably make this world a better place. More students should be intellectually curious about history, literature, and ethics. But technical training and acquiring credentials for the job market have a place as well. There’s no reason trade schools need to fight the liberal arts in a zero-sum game. We need to think through how we create more and better of both opportunities.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman’s well-cut suit — it is not noticed.
~ Arthur Koestler
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
~ Eric Hoffer
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It is often difficult for Trump critics to inhabit the mind of one of his supporters, to understand Trump’s appeal without immediately defaulting to simplifications like racism and misogyny, explanations that have become less of a skeleton key and more of a shibboleth, particularly as the former president continues to see his support among minorities swell.
~ Tyler Austin Harper via The Atlantic
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To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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