Since the advent of personal computers, the Pentagon’s relationship with technology companies has been hampered by mutual suspicion. Many U.S. troops use more modern technology in their daily lives than they do while in uniform.
~ W.J. Hennigan via The New York Times
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You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, in all probability he hates you. It’s not the worst thing that could happen.
~ Tyler Durden
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It’s a life’s work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Things aren’t different. Things are things.
~ William Gibson
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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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Founded in the wake of the Cold War to meld Europe’s nation-states into an “ever closer union” and to form a continental government that would practice a new kind of politics, the European Union has wound up more outdated than the nation-states it was meant to supplant.
~ Christopher Caldwell via The New York Times
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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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Gavin Newsom, who at times can seem more like the Tom Cruise of politics, more successful than beloved, has been at pains to make it clear to people that the suave, wealthy glad-hander is a role he imagined himself into, not the way he was born.
~ Nathan Heller via The New Yorker
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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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