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But what is a “good man”? Is it Eric Schneiderman, a former New York attorney general, a Democrat, and a man who has raised his voice against sexual misconduct and who has been accused by four women of physical violence and abuse? Or is it Mike Pence, the monogamous, religious vice president, who will not be alone in a room with a woman other than
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The Greek poet Archilocus’s well-known dichotomy of hedgehogs and foxes—“the fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing”—is another theme that plays throughout Peter Burke’s book.
Epstein, Joseph. “A Gallery of Know-It-Alls: Those Strange Creatures Called Polymaths.” Commentary 151, no. 4 (April 2021): 33–36.
Edmund Burke argued that a society should be seen as a: ‘partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born’ (Burke [1790] quoted in Beinhocker 2006: 454). Burke points to the interests of unborn members of a society and how they need a powerful ‘voice’ to counter
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Unanimous violence is always anonymous violence.
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Drew Waterstreet • This Entire Reality Is a Lie. | Whatifalthist with Rudyard Lynch • Podcast Notes
My point to you is that, like so many people who invest in real estate, Paulie was thinking only about return on equity—not about return on experience.
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stable and unstable, liker and disliker.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
