Thoughts I Live With

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• we have learnt distance / in this country / we have learnt to never / look back —Tim Loveday

"at the end of the rail" Mascara Literary Review "at the end of the rail" timloveday.com "at the end of the rail" Mascara Literary Review (at Internet Archive)

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• Being smart is sexy now. Not only the kind of sexy that makes people fancy you, but the kind of sexy that generates discourse. The kind of sexy that accrues value. —Jess Cartner-Morley

The Guardian The Guardian (at Internet Archive)

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• You do not have to wait for someone to rebuild what you lost. You are standing in it. —Terry Godier

TerryGodier.com TerryGodier.com (at Internet Archive)

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• Every political project carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. Its tensions, contradictions, limitations -- and ultimately its demise -- are baked in from the start. The sociocultural zeitgeist into which it is born, together with the quality of its thinking and leadership, determine its longevity. —Neal Lawson

The New Statesman The New Statesman (at Internet Archive)

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• [W]ars don’t arise from personal relationships. They arise from ideas -- from the accretion, and corruption, of ideas over time. —James Verini

The New Yorker The New Yorker (at Internet Archive)

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• At first, he might have just wanted to have fun. But he was a decent man pressed into service by indecent times, living proof that a person can weather the worst life has to dish out without losing their mind, or their soul. —Sam Adams

Slate Slate (at Internet Archive)

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• The app stops being a way to engage with the hobby and instead turns the hobby into a way to engage with the app. From the outside, the hobby still looks the same -- you're still running, or watching an art film, or peeping a bufflehead sea duck through your binoculars -- but the goal is no longer the experience itself. —Tyler Austin Harper

The Atlantic The Atlantic (captured at archive.today)

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• PTSD is like going through hell, but you've just got to keep going. You can get treatment, you can talk to people, but the person who helps you most is yourself. —David Nott

Financial Times Financial Times (captured at archive.today)

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• Economists love data, but truly great economists know how to conjure a compelling narrative from the numbers. —Zachary D. Carter

In The Long Run – Substack In The Long Run – Substack (at Internet Archive)

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• [A] place forever caught, like the whole country, between a vision of who we aspire to be and an anxiety about who we really are. —Carla Sosenko

New York Times New York Times (captured at archive.today)

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• I often wonder whether hope is a simple matter of elevation: if how far you can see before the last horizon determines how much you can imagine the world containing -- and how much you think it contains for you. —Erin L. McCoy

Literary Hub Literary Hub (at Internet Archive)

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• Most of us are, in some way, dislocated figures living deracinated lives. —Tom McTague

The New Statesman The New Statesman (at Internet Archive)

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• Writing isn't just the production of sentences -- it's the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It's a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. —Micah Nathan

The Guardian The Guardian (at Internet Archive)

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• In shame cultures, individuals were punished publicly for the infraction of social norms, whereas in guilt cultures new institutions punished and regulated behavior outside public view. On this view, the infliction of shame compels an individual to change their sense of self, whereas the attribution of guilt compels a change only in a specified domain of action. —Jake Subryan Richards

Political Thought and the Emotion of Shame: John Stuart Mill and the Jamaica Committee during the Governor Eyre Controversy Political Thought and the Emotion of Shame: John Stuart Mill and the Jamaica Committee during the Governor Eyre Controversy (at Internet Archive)

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• [T]he process of polarization, if not contained or channeled through an explicit democracy-rebuilding program, creates a vicious cycle: It changes the incentives for political actors and voters alike in ways that lead them to sacrifice democratic principles rather than risk losing power. —Jennifer McCoy + Murat Somer

"Mainstream Parties in Crisis: Overcoming Polarization" Journal of Democracy January 2021, Volume 32, Issue 1 "Overcoming Polarization" Academia.edu "Overcoming Polarization" Koç Üniversitesi "Overcoming Polarization" Koç Üniversitesi (at Internet Archive)

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• America is indeed a land of opportunity, at least in the sense that here you always have the opportunity to escape from what you hate or to balance it with what you like. —Stanisław Barańczak

Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays (at Internet Archive)

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• Whoever has land, has conflict. —French proverb

Orig. French: Qui a terre, a guerre.

Encyclopediana, ou Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des ANA. (at Bibliothèque nationale de France) Dictionnaire d'Anecdotes, de Traits Singuliers, et Caractéristiques. (at Internet Archive)