Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
~ Eric Hoffer
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There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States. Once again: critiques are appropriate and necessary, provided that they rest on facts and address real abuses, real errors and real excesses — without deliberately losing sight of America’s wise decisions, beneficent interventions and salutary policies.
~ Jean-François Revel
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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
~ Eric Hoffer
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There’s no war that will end all wars.
~ Haruki Murakami
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How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.
~ Walter Kirn
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Knowledge workers were already exhausted by their jobs before the pandemic arrived: too much e-mail, too many meetings, too much to do—all being relentlessly delivered through ubiquitous glowing screens. We used to believe that these depredations were somehow fundamental to office work in the twenty-first century, but the pandemic called this assumption into question. If an activity as entrenched as coming to an office every day could be overturned essentially overnight, what other aspects of our professional lives could be reimagined?
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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Ideologies capable of influencing and winning the acceptance of great masses of people are an indispensable verbal cement holding the fabric of any given type of society together.
~ James Burnham
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Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
~ Walter Kirn
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