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ADAM GOPNIKAmericans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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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 light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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