Is your own existence so replete with equanimity you find no outlet for worry except on behalf of others?
~ Iain Banks
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What if an A.I.-controlled drone flying a future mission misidentifies a passenger jet as an enemy plane and targets it? Is the military responsible for that failure? Or the defense firm that coded the software?
~ W.J. Hennigan via The New York Times
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Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
~ Tyler Durden
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In some parts of the Himalayas, parents marry off their oldest son; then, when his younger brothers come of age, they join the marriage and share the wife. No one knows which brother is the biological father of any child that results from these unions, and, it seems, no one particularly cares.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker
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The more democratic the world’s societies are, the more idiosyncratic they will be, and the more their economic rules will diverge. But that is exactly what businesses cannot tolerate — at least not under globalization. Money and goods must be able to move frictionlessly and efficiently across borders. This requires a uniform set of laws. Somehow, democracy is going to have to give way.
~ 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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America’s old republic was born of rebellion against Britain’s more ancient monarchy. Yet, by strange fate, the passage of time has only joined America and Britain more closely together in war and peace.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Level 5 leaders embody a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will. They are ambitious, to be sure, but ambitious first and foremost for the company, not themselves.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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Donald Trump has eroded the credibility of the United States in Western capitals, and it is Canada that finds itself at the forefront of the reckoning.
~ Ishaan Tharoor via The New Yorker
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Civic powerlessness can be overridden by good gossip.
~ Doreen St. Félix via The New Yorker
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By 1985, the threat of highly restrictive legislation became acute. In July, Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, future Senate Finance Chairman and vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen, and future House Majority Leader and presidential candidate Richard Gephardt introduced legislation imposing a 25 percent surcharge on imports from any country that maintained both a large bilateral trade surplus with the United States and unfair barriers to imports, with mandated reductions in the bilateral deficit.
~ Michael Starr via American Affairs
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