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| 6a44709 | The great irony, then, is that the nation's most famous modern conservative economist became the father of Big Government, chronic deficits, and national fiscal bankruptcy. It was Friedman who first urged the removal of the Bretton Woods gold standard restraints on central bank money printing, and then added insult to injury by giving conservative sanction to perpetual open market purchases of government debt by the Fed. Friedman's monetari.. | David A. Stockman | ||
| be67396 | There's another element in the euro crisis, another weakness of a shared currency, that took many people, myself included, by surprise. It turns out that countries that lack their own currency are highly vulnerable to self-fulfilling panic, in which the efforts of investors to avoid losses from default end up triggering the very default they fear. | Paul Krugman | ||
| e9ca129 | The continued existence of all three states, France, England, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, each with the potential to dispute Habsburg pretensions in the future, again confirmed that the Europe of 1600 would consist of many nations, and not of one hegemony. | Paul Kennedy | ||
| 944a935 | The cause of this transformation, effected by the Meiji Restoration from 1868 onward, was the determination of influential members of the Japanese elite to avoid being dominated and colonized by the West, as seemed to be happening elsewhere in Asia, even if the reform measures to be taken involved the scrapping of the feudal order and the bitter opposition of the samurai clans.39 Japan had to be modernized not because individual entrepreneu.. | Paul Kennedy | ||
| a2aed8d | I asked her who he was and she said, "He was a man ahead of his time." She actually liked Malcolm X. She put him in nearly the same category as her other civil rights heroes, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Kennedys--any Kennedy. When Malcolm X talked about "the white devil" Mommy simply felt those references didn't apply to her." | James McBride | ||
| 96a4aea | It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt. | child | Donna Woolfolk Cross | |
| f533d70 | for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him. | Donna Woolfolk Cross | ||
| e457ff3 | The price one pays for having a kind man at one's elbow. | John Hersey | ||
| c835736 | Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, | Hesiod | ||
| 77e7c0a | Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander - British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder. | Anthony Horowitz | ||
| cdf7b27 | And barbarians were inventors not only of philosophy, but almost of every art. The Egyptians were the first to introduce astrology among men. Similarly also the Chaldeans. The Egyptians first showed how to burn lamps, and divided the year into twelve months, prohibited intercourse with women in the temples, and enacted that no one should enter the temples from a woman without bathing. Again, they were the inventors of geometry. There are so.. | carthage egypt persia phrygians | Clement of Alexandria | |
| 1730590 | If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first. | Hesiod | ||
| 823e2bb | Stanley's painful inhibitions are a reminder that the adventurers who carried out the European seizure of Africa were often not the bold, bluff, hardy men of legend, but restless, unhappy, driven men, in flight from something in their past or in themselves. | Adam Hochschild | ||
| 3fbf4ef | Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us. | Adam Hochschild | ||
| 4cc3de4 | Ordinary clay, it seems, has two basic properties essential to life. It can store energy and also transmit it. So, the scientists reason, clay could have acted as a "chemical factory" for turning inorganic raw materials into more complex molecules. Out of those complex molecules arose life--and, one" | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 2ff438d | All relationships live in the shadow of the third, for it is the other that solders our dyad. In his book Monogamy, Adam Phillips writes, "The couple is a resistance to the intrusion of the third, but in order for it to last it is indispensable to have enemies. That is why the monogamous can't live without them. When we are two, we are together. In order to form a couple, we need to be three." | Esther Perel | ||
| 6492ce0 | The grand illusion of committed love is that we think our partners are ours. In truth, their separateness is unassailable, and their mystery is forever ungraspable. As soon as we can begin to acknowledge this, sustained desire becomes a real possibility. | Esther Perel | ||
| 827c58f | We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning. | parenthood | Esther Perel | |
| 3e44c33 | Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. | Esther Perel | ||
| 0e8c966 | Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. --Anais Nin | Esther Perel | ||
| d25ab85 | We liken the passion of the beginning to adolescent intoxication--both transient and unrealistic. The consolation for giving it up is the security that waits on the other side. Yet when we trade passion for stability, are we not merely swapping one fantasy for another? As Stephen Mitchell points out, the fantasy of permanence may trump the fantasy of passion, but both are products of our imagination. | Esther Perel | ||
| c65413b | Terry Real, who has written extensively about men in relationships, describes a particular "unholy triangle" between "the powerful, irresponsible, and/or abusive father, the codependent, downtrodden wife, and the sweet son caught in the middle." These sons, he expands, become unhealthily enmeshed with their mothers, and as adults, they "become afraid of their own range of emotions."2 They are kind souls who feel they must curtail their own .. | Esther Perel | ||
| d348ffe | But when we reduce the conversation to simply passing judgment, we are left with no conversation at all. | Esther Perel | ||
| dd2104e | capitalism is not "materialistic," but "semiotic." It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images, and brands," | Geoffrey Miller | ||
| 7bdff23 | Many thinkers have tried to "naturalize" consumerism in that way, including most social Darwinists, Austrian School economists (Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard), Chicago School economists (George Stigler, Milton Friedman, Gary Becker), Darwinian libertarians, globalization advocates, management gurus, and marketers. Their model (which I call the Wrong Conservative Model, because I think it's wrong, and because it's usuall.. | Geoffrey Miller | ||
| 087102e | Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. To build that vocabulary, children must learn ten to twenty words a day between the ages of eighteen months and eighteen years. And yet the most frequent one hundred words account for 60 percent of all conversations. The most common four thousand words account for 98 percent of conversations. Why do humans bother knowing | David Brooks | ||
| bc6ae5e | Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors. | Geoffrey Miller | ||
| 267cbc9 | David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social status, good income, ambition, intelligence, and energy--contrary to the views of some cultural anthropologists, who assume that people vary capriciously in their sexual preferences across different cultures. He interpreted this as evidence that women evolved to prefer good providers who could support their families by .. | sexual-selection | Geoffrey Miller | |
| d626718 | Sincerity in personal advertisements is a code word for commitment, used by women to screen out men seeking casual sex without any commitment. | David M. Buss | ||
| 27241da | One whose testimony made a major impact more than a decade ago is Ben Barres, formerly Barbara Barres, a biologist at Stanford University. In 2006, he wrote in the journal Nature about the bias he had experienced as a woman in the sciences, from losing fellowships to less qualified male candidates to being told a boyfriend must have helped her with her math. He was told that he was smarter than his sister by a man who confused his former, f.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| ec4acdd | Young feminists are a thrilling phenomenon: smart, bold, funny defenders of rights and claimers of space--and changers of the conversation. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 0335ad1 | Some portion of Woolf's genius, it seems to me, is that having no notion, that negative capability. I once heard about a botanist in Hawaii with a knack for finding new species by getting lost in the jungle, by going beyond what he knew and how he knew, by letting experience be larger than his knowledge, by choosing reality rather than the plan. Woolf not only utilized but celebrated the unpredictable meander, on mind and foot. Her great es.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| b51e4d8 | McMaster said that he believed Mattis and Tillerson had concluded that the president and the White House were crazy. As a result, they sought to implement and even formulate policy on their own without interference or involvement from McMaster, let alone the president. | Bob Woodward | ||
| b9024f6 | Cohn had a packet of Goldman Sachs-style charts and tables to educate the president on taxes. Trump was not interested and did not read it. | Bob Woodward | ||
| 86a1084 | In another discussion with the president, Cohn unveiled a Commerce Department study showing the U.S. absolutely needed to trade with China. "If you're the Chinese and you want to really just destroy us, just stop sending us antibiotics. You know we don't really produce antibiotics in the United States?" The study also showed that nine major antibiotics were not produced in the United States, including penicillin. China sold 96.6 percent of .. | Bob Woodward | ||
| 9956b4f | Despite almost daily reports of chaos and discord in the White House, the public did not know how bad the internal situation actually was. Trump was always shifting, rarely fixed, erratic. He would get in a bad mood, something large or small would infuriate him, and he would say about the KORUS trade agreement, "We're withdrawing today." | impulsiveness | Bob Woodward | |
| c36ee61 | Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment credentials. They had never worked on a story together. Woodward was 29, Bernstein 28. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward | Carl Bernstein | ||
| b31044c | Mattis and Gary Cohn had several quiet conversations about The Big Problem: The president did not understand the importance of allies overseas, the value of diplomacy or the relationship between the military, the economy and intelligence partnerships with foreign governments. | Bob Woodward | ||
| 2e6ae6c | Conway agreed with Bannon that if the Trump campaign could make the race about Hillary, not Trump, they would win with those hidden Trump voters. If the race stayed about Trump, "we'll probably lose." | hillary-clinton | Bob Woodward | |
| 4703b3d | The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward | Carl Bernstein | ||
| d321185 | McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical successes did not translate into a strategic victory. This was why counterinsurgency - blanketing the population in safety and winning them over - was necessary. | foreign-policy iraq obama-s-wars politics terrorism war | Bob Woodward | |
| 37e227f | Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility. Afghanistan had been marked by 'incredible neglect,' he told some of his officers. 'It's almost like you're on a hunger strike and you're on the 50th day, and all of a sudden you're going to try to feed this person. Well, they're not going to eat very quickly. I mean, every organ in the bod.. | afghanistan bob-woodward obama-s-wars united-states-foreign-policy war | Bob Woodward | |
| c779b8b | Paris was one of the justifications the Obama administration used as part of the regulatory record to justify the cost and benefits of the Clean Power Plan." That was an Obama-era 460-page rule to lower carbon dioxide emitted by power plants that the EPA estimated would save 4,500 lives a year. Pruitt was already moving to end the policy." | Bob Woodward | ||
| 56f505b | Bannon, Kushner and Mnuchin, the former Goldman Sachs executive, presented Trump with a plan for him to give $25 million to the campaign. "No way," Trump said. "Fuck that. I'm not doing it." Where were the famous Republican high-donor guys? "Where the fuck's the money? Where's all this money from these guys? Jared, you're supposed to be raising all this money. Not going to do it." -- | Bob Woodward |