“Violence is not confidence, and terror is not mastery.”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
“A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt,”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth--far from it. For it is the whole experience of mankind that sexual life is always, and must always be, hidden by veils of varying degrees of opacity, if it is to be humanized into something beyond a mere animal function. What is inherently secretive, that is to say self-conscious and human, cannot be spoken of directly; the attempt leads only to crudity, not to truth.”
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“How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?”
― Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics & Culture of Decline
― Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics & Culture of Decline
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