After-Orts #68
I have never understood why the same critics argue that giving money to poor people causes them to work less but giving money to rich people by cutting their taxes causes them to work more.
— Evelyn L. Forget
https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book-review-well-researched-analysis-of-guaranteed-basic-income-is-anything-but-well-basic
It is only those who accept their loneliness and refuse all the refuges, whether of tribal nationalism or airtight intellectual systems, who will carry on the human heritage.
— Benjamin Britten, England and the Folk-Art Problem, quoted in Heather Wiebe, Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction
and quoted at about 58'05" in this CMSLC lecture:
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/watch-and-listen/video/pushing-boundaries-winter-2014/icm-elgar-feb-19-2014/
- Giant spiders expected to drop from sky across the East Coast this spring -
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/03/09/giant-joro-spiders-east-coast-may
He knows everything, but lacks inexperience.
-- Hector Berlioz, of Camille Saint-Saëns