An original is a creation motivated by desire.
Any reproduction of an original is motivated by necessity.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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On the campaign trail, Gavin Newsom has a mental stack of cue cards that he riffs on the way a jazz pianist might improvise from a chord chart. His movements through the language can be weird.
~ Nathan Heller via The New Yorker
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Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.
~ Dean Acheson
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I don’t think you can bet against America. The country has been remarkably resilient over time. At the same time, I view the sickness that we face as being pretty deep. And I also view the challenges that we have to navigate together as being more profound than any we’ve faced in our history.
~ Dean Ball via The Atlantic
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The bounded rationality of each actor in a system may not lead to decisions that further the welfare of the system as a whole.
~ Donella Meadows
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The increasing control of U.S. mass media by a mere handful of corporations has — rather counterintuitively — created a situation of extreme fragmentation, a kaleidoscope of information options.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.
~ Iain Banks
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Rarely do good surprises occur between adversarial nations. Communicating more, rather than less, is far safer.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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The surge of real investment now occurring in semiconductor manufacturing and data centers has been funded primarily by corporate profits and old-fashioned bonds, while the emergence of more speculative and exotically engineered arrangements among A.I. companies are already giving rise to concerns of a bubble. The financialized features of the American system are not what make our robust capital markets the envy of the world.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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