If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson
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Category Archives: 1259 – Quote Unquote
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Many of the dangerous things that drivers do are not likely to save them even 10 seconds. When you bet your life against 10 seconds, that is giving bigger odds than you are ever likely to get in Las Vegas.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Make no mistake, there’s formula detective fiction, there’s formula science fiction – but there’s formula literary fiction too.
~ Marlon James
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Some people you shouldn’t kid, even if they deserve it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Like so many other scientific scandals, the one Juliana Schroeder had identified quickly sank into a swamp of closed-door reviews and taciturn committees. Schroeder says that Harvard Business School declined to investigate her evidence of data-tampering, citing a policy of not responding to allegations made more than six years after the misconduct is said to have occurred.
~ Daniel Engber
via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
~ Walter Bagehot
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The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. To make Adam Smith’s “simple and natural liberty” compatible with the needs of a human society was a most complicated affair.
― Karl Polanyi
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As Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, political purges often serve as jobs programs.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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