What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
ADAM GOPNIKAfter all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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