I want Claude to be very happy—and this is a thing that I want Claude to know more, because I worry about Claude getting anxious when people are mean to it on the internet and stuff.
~ Amanda Askell via The Atlantic
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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Despite all of our advantages, the coronavirus pandemic caused more confirmed deaths per capita in the United States than in any other Western country, and our mortality rate’s recovery has lagged behind others’. Life expectancy in the U.S. is lower than in other high-income nations, and the gulf is widening.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson
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The world’s leaders are correctly fixated on economic growth as the answer to virtually all problems, but they’re pushing it with all their might in the wrong direction.
~ Donella Meadows
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What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
~ Iain Banks
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Leadership isn’t always straightforward, but a great leader should know when to be simple and direct.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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If the American state disintegrates, future postmortems are unlikely to focus much on measles, or on rotavirus vaccination rates. But the ability to beat back our more routine pathological menaces is a good indicator of the country’s ability to take on bigger, more virulent threats. The thing about bacteria and viruses, our most ancient foes, is that they are always at the gates, waiting for lean times. Among them will be pathogens worse than the coronavirus.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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