The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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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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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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