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“It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology”
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“That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
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“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
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“Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.”
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Jules’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jules’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
102 books
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17 friends
151 books
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12 friends
226 books
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1 friend
16 books
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14 friends
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