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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“When one does not see what one does not see, one does not even see that one is blind. — PAUL VEYNE”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World

“The Achilles’ heel of authoritarianism is that the leader by the very nature of his position is able to ignore the wisdom of anyone “below” him—that is, anyone who stands between him and the real world. This is what authority means: immunity from competence.
—Philip Slater”
― Charles D. Hayes, Proving Youre Qualified

“It is derision that is mainstream and easy, and actual journalism that is edgy and difficult. So try for yourself to write a proper article, involving work in the real world: traveling, interviewing, maintaining relationships with sources, researching in written records, verifying everything, writing and revising drafts, all on a tight and unforgiving schedule. If you find you like doing this, keep a blog. In the meantime, give credit to those who do all of that for a living. Journalists are not perfect, any more than people in other vocations are perfect. But the work of people who adhere to journalistic ethics is of a different quality than the work of those who do not.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century