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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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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Anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
~ Diane Arbus
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Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Trust is less quantifiable than other forms of capital. Its decline is vaguely felt before it’s plainly seen.
~ Jerry Useem via The Atlantic
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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
~ Franz Kafka
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There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
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Although intergenerational population replacement involves long time lags, cultural change can reach a tipping point at which new norms become dominant. Conformism and social desirability effects then reverse polarity: instead of retarding the changes linked with intergenerational population replacement, they accelerate them, bringing unusually rapid cultural change.
~ Ronald Inglehart
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