The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Author Archives: Kristina Lutz-Jacobi
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~ Thomas Sowell
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You may remember the syllabus. Handed out on the first day of class, it was a revered and simple artifact that would outline the plan of a college course. It was a pragmatic document, covering contact information, required books, meeting times, and a schedule. But it was also a symbolic one, representing the educational part of the college experience in a few dense and hopeful pages.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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Exile has always served as a powerful engine for fiction. To find yourself displaced, whether self-imposed or inflicted by a state, is to be simultaneously inside and outside; you gain intimate proximity to your new society while still standing at a distance from it, seeing things real insiders can’t.
~ Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic
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Midday Music Fix
Pearl Jam – Daughter
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The real struggle is between order and anarchy.
~ Edmund Cooper
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Five Universities in Mainland China with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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Conservatism is a philosophy of inheritance and stewardship; it does not squander resources but strives to enhance them and pass them on.
~ Roger Scruton
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