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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Adam Gopnik

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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:

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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Making an idea into an emotion.

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Making an idea into an emotion.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.

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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

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