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Not being a real journalist—at least I did not consider myself one—I dreaded the prospect of covering the DPRK alongside so many veterans, until I realized how little they knew of North Korea, and how little they managed to find out. A
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Heh. Y, journalism experience doesn’t compensate much for unavoidable ignorance.
“Read. You can always talk with another reader.”
― Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior
― Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
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“I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's”
― Prodigal Summer
― Prodigal Summer
“I always say that the way you write a novel is for the first 83 drafts you pretend that nobody is ever, ever going to read it.”
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“At the federal level, this problem could be greatly alleviated by abolishing the Electoral College system. It's the winner-take-all mathematics from state to state that delivers so much power to a relative handful of voters. It's as if in politics, as in economics, we have a privileged 1 percent. And the money from the financial 1 percent underwrites the microtargeting to secure the votes of the political 1 percent. Without the Electoral College, by contrast, every vote would be worth exactly the same. That would be a step toward democracy.”
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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