If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Wolfgang Streeck may be best known for his essays in New Left Review, including a dazzling series on the cascade of financial crises that followed the crash of 2008. He resembles Karl Marx in his conviction that capitalism has certain internal contradictions that make it unsustainable — the more so in its present “neoliberal” form. His latest book, “Taking Back Control? States and State Systems After Globalism,” published this month, asks whether the global economy as it is now set up is compatible with democracy. He has his doubts.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
~ Rollo May
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.
~ H. L. Mencken
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In the television world, babies are a convenient way to reinvigorate stale interpersonal dynamics, or a point of narrative pressure that forces characters to make dramatic choices.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of all American art.
~ Mark Twain
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Time moves in one direction, memory another.
~ William Gibson
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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