Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
~ Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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Self-government makes high demands of its citizens. Today’s students will be called to lead in a complicated world where not everyone will agree, where trade-offs will be necessary, where basic values inform the work of navigating complex realities. The current illiberal climate on campuses is the kind of tragedy that could doom a republic. We cannot let that happen.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Divine madness enters more or less into all our noblest undertakings.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Professors and rhetoricians find a system for every contingency and a principle for every chance.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
~ Charles Dickens
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In a zero-sum world, one with no or very little growth, democracy can become antagonistic as people seek to vote money away from each other. What follows from that antagonism is distrust and polarization. In a high-growth world the dogfights can be far fewer, because it’s much easier for everyone to win.
~ Sam Altman
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How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you’re hungry. If you can’t think of anything else.
~ Herta Müller
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Starting a new form of government at the close of an era, as the founders of the European Union tried to do, is not necessarily a doomed project. The United States might be called the last nation that was established before the onset of the Industrial Revolution. But you cannot really have an overarching federal government, such as the United States has, unless people are content to see the states lose power to the capital over the long term. Americans have made their peace with this, although it required a civil war and a good deal of other violence to bring consensus.
~ Christopher Caldwell via The New York Times
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Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has.
~ Franz Kafka
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