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‘What is there against Bulstrode?’ said Lydgate, emphatically. ‘I did not say there was anything against him except that. If you vote against him you will make him your enemy.’ ‘I don’t know that I need mind about that,’ said Lydgate, rather proudly; ‘but he seems to have good ideas about hospitals, and he spends large sums on useful public
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
After years of disappointment, Sara shares her expectations by snapping in anger, and Alan makes promises but then resents Sara and procrastinates until she believes he’s broken his promise.
Adam Smith • Exhausted Wives, Bewildered Husbands: Why your marriage is hurting, and how to blossom as a couple
She has complained about these behaviors for years and Alan admits to every fault she finds, promising to behave differently.
Adam Smith • Exhausted Wives, Bewildered Husbands: Why your marriage is hurting, and how to blossom as a couple
People are not monads. A real, live human self is always already partial to certain, select others. Morality needs to take this essential fact about human selfhood into account rather than pretend to override it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism

Adam Appich, master of science, is there with several studies that show how legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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