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Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order

~ William J. Bennett

William J. Bennett Kindlehighlight

And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?” “Oh, my goodness, yes,” said Anna. “He wrote a book you could kill a man with—twelve hundred pages—called A New Kind of Science. It’s all about them.” “We should totally ask him what he thinks!” Caitlin said.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer Kindlehighlight

in time to come be shaped by the human mind.” Asked

~ Joseph J. Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis Kindlehighlight

Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would make short work of tyrannosaurs.” She nodded at Schrödinger, who was now padding across the floor in the opposite direction. “Big cats, too. They’re faster, tougher, and brighter than anything that existed seventy million years ago. Everything is always ramping up, always escalating.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

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Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold ... the constitutional processes.... I will obey.3

~ William J. Bennett

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American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because they didn't want to win

~ William J. Bennett

William J. Bennett Kindlehighlight

I am not a Federalist,” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever.… If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis Kindlehighlight

money I could hardly think of it. “Go on, take it.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Rothfuss Kindlehighlight

He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I'm standing right there. I'm like, Alright. You're comfortable. It was like we knew each other for four or five years, even though we had never met.

~ Peter Seibel

Peter Seibel Kindlehighlight

There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk. Robert had erupted, chunks slapping off the walls in every direction.

~ David Wong

David Wong Kindlehighlight

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~ Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman Kindlehighlight

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after

~ Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas Kindlehighlight

long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution when an unrelated species (the Long-Fingered Possum from Papua New Guinea) devised a similar strategy to address the same problem. (Douglas was very intrigued by the implications of convergence. What need is there to posit a designer if the operation of random forces, constrained by the reality of the world, produces the same elegant solution, as if there were no choice in the matter?) We monkeys have

~ Nick Webb

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legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

~ Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker Kindlehighlight

be as good as our first honeymoon?’ Friday 7 October A

~ Matt Rudd

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Zawinski: Sometimes. I end up doing all the sysadmin crap, which I can't stand-I've never liked it. I enjoy working on XScreenSaver because in some ways screen savers-the actual display modes rather than the XScreenSaver framework-are the perfect program because they almost always start from scratch and they do something pretty and there's never a version 2.0. There's very rarely a bug in a screen saver. It crashes-oh, there's a divide-by-zero and you fix that.

~ Peter Seibel

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on. I’m getting cold.’ Clutching the pluckers, I call her. ‘Right

~ Matt Rudd

Matt Rudd Kindlehighlight

Fitzpatrick: Back when I was doing Perl-even for people that knew Perl really well-I would recommend MJD's Higher-Order Per!. The book is really fun in that it starts somewhat simple and you're like, Yeah, yeah, I know what a closure is. And then it just continues to fuck with your head. By the end of the book, you're just blown away.

~ Peter Seibel

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Sweet allowed her pregnancy to get the better of her and simply sat down. Reenie’s lips set into a straight, emotionless line. Mawu no longer talked back, the words she did speak taking on an air of vapidity. Philip was chained at night, no longer trusted. So it was no wonder that Lizzie sought out the white woman then.

~ Dolen Perkins-Valdez

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Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

~ Ian Mcewan

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Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about “let’s see” and “try.” If there’s no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.

~ Seth Godin

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It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The game becomes an extended metaphor of character defect. Every error he makes is so profoundly, so irritatingly typical of himself, instantly familiar, like a signature, like a tissue scar or some deformation in a private place.

~ Ian Mcewan

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A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. They mentally assign you to a little box in the lane, assume you will stay there, can't handle it when you leave that little box.

~ Neal Stephenson

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Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

~ Walter Ralston Martin

Walter Ralston Martin Kindlehighlight

Becoming drunk is a journey that generally elates him in the early stages—he's good company, expansive, mischievous and fun, the famous old poet, almost as happy listening as talking. But once the destination is met, once established up there on that unsunny plateau, a fully qualified drunk, the nastier muses, the goblins of aggression, paranoia, self-pity take control. The expectation now is that an evening with John will go bad somehow, unless everyone around is prepared to toil at humouring and flattering and hours of frozen-faced listening. No one will be.

~ Ian Mcewan

Ian Mcewan Kindlehighlight

They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment.  I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained...

~ Charlotte Brontë

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Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find—all was eerie and dreary; the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and fearful imps, Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions.  I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.

~ Charlotte Brontë

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think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't.

~ Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson Kindlehighlight

Bit literacy means letting the bits go, anything else perpetuates the problem.

~ Mark Hurst

Mark Hurst Kindlehighlight

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

~ Ian Mcewan

Ian Mcewan Kindlehighlight

Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical sources, but so diluted with human error as to be more deadly than complete falsehood.

~ Walter Ralston Martin

Walter Ralston Martin Kindlehighlight

Bits have unique properties, then, that we can use to our advantage: they’re super-small, super-fast, easily acquired and created and copied and shared in near-infinite quantity, protected from the ravages of time, and free from the limitations of distance and space. In practice, though, bits reveal several paradoxes: they’re weightless, but they weigh us down; they don’t take up any space, but they always seem to pile up; they’re created in an instant, but they can last forever; they move quickly, but they can waste our time.

~ Mark Hurst

Mark Hurst Kindlehighlight

We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.

~ Thomas Frank

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he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In a peculiar way, Parrington seemed to think, Kansas was one of the birthplaces of literary modernism.

~ Thomas Frank

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In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the state’s dominant political faction, that would reduce Kansas Democrats to third-party status, and that would wreck what remained of the state’s progressive legacy. We are accustomed to thinking of the backlash as a phenomenon of the seventies (the busing riots, the tax revolt) or the eighties (the Reagan revolution); in Kansas the great move to the right was a story of the nineties, a story of the present.

~ Thomas Frank

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AN IMPERIALIST POWER THAT ACTS ON ITS OWN REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD THINKS. 18–29 30–49 50–64 65+ Improper/Somewhat improper 86% 73 69 67 Somewhat proper/Proper 3 13 20 17 No other group we studied—not Democrats generally, not self-described progressives or libertarians, not readers of The New York Times—had a greater spread between the two extremes.

~ John Zogby

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nothing knee-jerk about their politics. Two out of three of them say that abortion is “always” or “usually” morally wrong. They are far more likely than voters age thirty and over to identify themselves as politically “strictly independent.” In fact, more than any other generation I’ve tracked in my polling, Globals seem determined to find a middle ground on the hot-button issues of the day and to decide each one on a case by case basis, not because their party leaders are urging them in one direction or the other. I like to tell audiences that while First Globals might not be more...

~ John Zogby

John Zogby Kindlehighlight

four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.

~ John Zogby

John Zogby Kindlehighlight

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library.  This book I had again and again perused with delight. 

~ Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë Kindlehighlight

By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture.

~ Walter Ralston Martin

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