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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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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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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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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Americans last focused sustained political attention on the trade deficit in the 1980s. A crisis strikingly similar to today’s—a collapsing industrial base, bipartisan fury in Congress, and a soaring dollar—produced the most consequential episode of international currency coordination in modern history. The Plaza Accord of 1985 and the diplomatic campaign that surrounded it succeeded in rapidly reversing the trade deficit. But the success did not last.
~ Michael Starr via American Affairs
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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and to form a continental government that would practice a new kind of politics, the European Union has wound up more outdated than the nation-states it was meant to supplant.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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