Orts #897

"14% of America, roughly half left and half right, consistently shouts, posts and votes, while 67% of us are exhausted."   
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The brain is by far the most complex piece of highly excitable matter in the known universe by any measure. We don’t even understand the brain of a worm.
      -- Christof Koch : https://nyti.ms/2yDlOZx

Man's curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble.
     -- E. B. White (1899-1985), in a letter  
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/wind-clock-for-tomorrow-is-another-day.html

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You know, they have a word. It sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist. And I say really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I am a nationalist. Use that word.
     -- Donald Trump, at a rally, October 22, Houston, Texas


By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled 'good' or 'bad'. But secondly — and this is much more important — I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.
     -- George Orwell, in an essay, Notes on Nationalism, May 1945


 

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