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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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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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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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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The dollar is probably the most valuable strategic asset the United States has. We exercise a degree of control over the world economy because the world, for trading purposes, allows its transactions to pass through our currency. This leaves us with cheaper transaction costs and lighter financial burdens.
~ Christopher Caldwell via The New York Times
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
~ Anton Chekhov
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A real American would never want to know what’s in a hot dog.
~ Nate Bargatze
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The least obvious part of a system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system’s behavior.
~ Donella Meadows
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