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Freddie deBoer: “Sadly, nothing is complicated for progressives today. I think the attitude that all questions are simple and nothing is complicated is the second most prominent element of contemporary progressive social culture, beneath only lol lol lol lmao lol lol.”
“Data from millions of manuscripts show that, compared with the mid-twentieth century, research done in the 2000s was much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction and render previous work obsolete.”
Kit Wilson: “Do you know what you’ll be reading on May 17th this year? Certainly I’ve no idea what I’ll have on my bedside table. A lot depends, naturally, on what I discover between now and then — and what, at each juncture, I’m inspired to move on to next.”
Patti Davis on Prince Harry: “Years ago, someone asked me what I would say to my younger self if I could. Without hesitating I answered: ‘That’s easy. I’d have said, Be quiet.’ Not forever. But until I could stand back and look at things through a wider lens. Until I understood that words have consequences, and they last a really long time.”
