The states, in signing the Constitution, did not relinquish their independent authority to safeguard the public health.
~ Matthew Lawrence via The New York Times
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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I am not going to New York, I am leaving Paris. That’s quite different.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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A college-educated working class sounds like an oxymoron because socioeconomic status is generally defined by education and believed to rise with each academic degree. In recent years, a college education has become one of the most reliable indicators of both economic well-being and voting behavior.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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An author spends so much time workshopping words and sentences. I accept that a book’s reception is subject to the vagaries of the market and the memelords.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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Sync’s rise has been hastened by changes in the music industry itself, where income has dried up for all but the most successful artists.
~ Ryan Francis Bradley via The New York Times Magazine
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Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács
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For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they normalize propaganda, addict children and degrade our character.
~ Tim Wu via The New York Times
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To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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In chaotic situations, raw brainpower can be less important than sensitivity of perception. The ancient Greeks had a word, metis, that means having a practiced eye, the ability to synthesize all the different aspects of a situation and discern the flow of events—a kind of agility that enables people to anticipate what will come next. Academic knowledge of the sort measured by the SATs doesn’t confer this ability; inert book learning doesn’t necessarily translate into forecasting how complex situations will play out.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin