“Expertise is not a parlor trick played with factoids.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.”
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“If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find the true face of America. It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“He spends a lot of time telling you how smart he is, which is odd because, if you’re truly all that bright, people can usually figure it out on their own.”
― Theft by Finding: Diaries
― Theft by Finding: Diaries
“We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles—whatever one may choose to call them—we know: the best of us did not return.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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