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“But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“We know how unsafe the world is for us. We are like cliffs staring down at a raging sea, battered by winds and salt and spray and unable to wrench ourselves away from the supposed inevitability of it all. But though we may recede under the relentless thrashing, still we stand tall. The world and all its angry currents cannot break us, no matter how hard it tries. Still, this erosion of the spirit is a bitter pill to swallow.”
― Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

“It is irrational to be politically well-informed because the low returns from data simply do not justify their cost in time and other resources.”
― Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

“The true purpose of a present is to be received.”
― Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing