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“Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.”
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“Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.”
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“The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.”
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“The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, ... Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. ... The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.”
Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.
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“Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world”
Source : Bryan Caplan (2011). “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies”, p.116, Princeton University Press
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“There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.”
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“Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too.”
