The best way to increase societal wealth is to decrease the cost of goods, from food to video games.
~ Sam Altman
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You do not need to withhold any single criticism of Woodrow Wilson, the man and the president, to regret the harm done by the unbalanced and totalizing censure that has been heaped upon him over the past decade. Wilson was a great domestic reformer. He was the first American president to perceive and explain how American power could anchor the peace of a future democratic world.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Deception is the knowledge of kings.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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In 1989, a socially anxious handyman named Trent Reznor shut himself in the Cleveland recording studio that employed him and emerged with one of rock and roll’s great statements of sexual frustration. Nine Inch Nails’s debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, blended noise with synthesized melodies and dance beats; it sounded like the work of a loner who hated his own need for connection, intimacy, and other bodies. In the ragged rasp of a man dying of thirst, Reznor screamed a confession: “I just want something I can never have!”
~ Spencer Kornhaber via The Atlantic
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A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.
~ Franz Kafka
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What’s at stake, when we ask what college is for, is nothing less than our ability to remain fully human.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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