Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
~ Milan Kundera
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
~ William Faulkner
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
~ Gertrude Stein
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can’t make head or tail: you’d make a terrible witness.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Every expression of human mental life can be understood as a kind of language, and this understanding, in the manner of a true method, everywhere raises new questions.
― Walter Benjamin
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In the ceremonies of the public execution, the main character was the people, whose real and immediate presence was required for the performance.
― Michel Foucault
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Even though Wuhan is the home base of virus hunters with world-leading expertise in tracking novel SARS-like viruses, investigators have either failed to collect or report key evidence that would be expected if Covid-19 emerged from the wildlife trade. For example, investigators have not determined that the earliest known cases had exposure to intermediate host animals before falling ill. No antibody evidence shows that animal traders in Wuhan are regularly exposed to SARS-like viruses, as would be expected in such situations.
~ Alina Chan via The New York Times
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The more the state “plans” the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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