Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?
~ David Foster Wallace
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The best Russian realist conflicts with the realism of Courbet. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissaro.
~ Marc Chagall
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Millennials love to talk—and gripe—about ambition. What was once a virtue has become a generational bugbear. Millennial women, raised on Girl Power and rom-coms in which the heroine gets the job and the man, joined the workforce just in time for the girlboss culture of the 2010s, which promised that hard work would lead not only to personal success but also to feminist victory.
~ Lily Meyer via The Atlantic
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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
~ Haruki Murakami
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Sometimes, association does prove guilt. That’s why the U.S. has laws against racketeering and membership in prohibited terrorist organizations.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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Robert F. Kennedy’s outspoken position on vaccine safety has revealed—and also helped drive—the GOP-ification of the anti-vax position. Until just a few years ago, vaccine skepticism was nonpartisan. It was associated both with a hippie approach to health, which chiefly appealed to affluent lefties, and with the doctrine of political liberty, which appealed more to conservatives.
~ Derek Thompson
via RFK Jr. Is a Bellwether
published by The Atlantic
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