Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
~ Lao Zi
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A gentleman can live through anything.
~ William Faulkner
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Most admissions officers at elite universities genuinely want to see each candidate as a whole person. They genuinely want to build a campus with a diverse community and a strong learning environment. But they, like the rest of us, are enmeshed in the mechanism that segregates not by what we personally admire, but by what the system, typified by the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, demands.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
― Walter Benjamin
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Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer?
~ Gertrude Stein
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History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations
~ Arthur Koestler
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The mechanism by which the interaction of democratic decisions and their implementation by the experts often produces results which nobody has desired is a subject which would deserve much more careful attention than it usually receives.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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