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Our internal difficulties, tribal war and the nuclei of political opposition seemed to have been accidentally concentrated in the regions with our richest mineral and power resources.
“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
“What Bennett would have likely learned from the Barry administration was that arrests and incarcerations would prove futile as long as the drug trade provided economic opportunity, and as long as treatment needs went unmet.”
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
“No economist is likely to be surprised when rent control laws, for example, fail to control rent, so that cities with such laws often end up with higher rents than cities without them1— New York and San Francisco being classic examples.”
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
“We know more than we think we do, a lot more than we can articulate.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“he said my name as if it meant something all its own—a spell.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
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