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Book cover for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto, #2)
It illustrates a severe limitation to our learning from observations or experience and the fragility of our knowledge. One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of ...more
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Erik Larson
“one may safely say that it would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system which implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.”
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson
“why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world?”
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Erik Larson
“The nation, Dodd had written, must discard its “righteous aloofness” because “another life and death struggle in Europe would bother us all—especially if it was paralleled by a similar conflict in the Far East (as I believe is the understanding in secret conclaves).” Dodd acknowledged Congress’s reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, “I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.”
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Paul Celan
“Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusa’s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same direction—is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusa’s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?”
Paul Celan

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