The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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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 determines whether a country runs a surplus or a deficit? The factors are interrelated. As a country’s currency appreciates, its goods become more expensive abroad and foreign goods become cheaper at home, incentivizing more imports and fewer exports, and thus pushing the current account toward deficit. Depreciation has the opposite effect.
~ Michael Starr via American Affairs
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The British stumbled upon an unexpectedly powerful idea: Sever the symbolism of the state from the political power of the state, and bestow those two different governing roles on two different people. Power has little majesty in the British system. Prime ministers reside in an apartment over their office. People are rude to them all the time.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
~ Ferris Bueller
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The path that leads from scathing denunciation through gradual accommodation to sycophantic embrace of Trump is a well-worn pilgrimage trail.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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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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The current account balance represents how much a country’s economy earns from or pays to the rest of the world in a given year. A current account deficit means a country pays foreigners more than it earns from them, making it a net debtor. A surplus means the opposite. For most countries, including the United States, the dominant component of the current account is the trade balance: the difference between imports and exports of goods and services.
~ Michael Starr via American Affairs
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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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