The working class is immense, varied, and not all that amenable to being led. It’s more atomized, more independent-minded, more conspiracy-minded and cynical than it was a couple of generations ago.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God — who knows all that can be known — seems powerless to change.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
~ William Faulkner
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Boeing’s latest screwups vividly dramatize a point often missed in laments of America’s manufacturing decline: that when global economic forces carried off some U.S. manufacturers for good, even the ones that stuck around lost interest in actually making stuff.
~ Jerry Useem via The Atlantic
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
~ George Santayana
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The moral confusion on too many campuses after the October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis fits a familiar pattern. The acceptability of the speech depends on the speaker. Individuals from oppressed groups are given leeway to target oppressor groups through disruptions and threats. This victimology allows Palestinians and their supporters (the oppressed) to target, intimidate, and harass Jews (the oppressors).
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
~ George Santayana
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Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
~ Arthur Koestler
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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
~ John Steinbeck
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