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Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
young woman of conventional middle-class privilege and promise whose situation was such that many people tended to overlook the fact that the state’s case against the accused was not invulnerable.
Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
Be reasonable and expect others to be reasonable.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Although divine revelation “had no weight with me,” he decided that religious practices were beneficial because they encouraged good behavior and a moral society. So he began to embrace a morally fortified brand of deism that held God was best served by doing good works and helping other people.
Walter Isaacson • Benjamin Franklin
our ability to think well will be determined to some considerable degree by who those others are: what we might call the moral form of our community. A willingness to be “broken on the floor,” for example, is in itself a testimony to belief that the people you’re debating are decent people who don’t want to harm or manipulate you—whereas if you
... See moreAlan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Could not desire and rarity, he urged, be sufficient for the supercharger to be granted leeway,
Anna Burns • Milkman
I hope, with all my heart, that I look refined and humble, just as an easygoing billionaire ought to appear.