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Adam Gopnik has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
— Bruce Barton
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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
— Blake Clark
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet,…
— Frances M. Young
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The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to…
— Unknown Author
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Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct…
— Jacques Ellul
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The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the…
— Will Durant
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This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and…
— Osama bin Laden
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We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task,…
— Michael Gurian
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This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.
— Jeff Flake
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