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“The thing about somebody else's car was, it was automatically an all-terrain vehicle.”
― Joe Country
― Joe Country
“If you’re cutting somebody’s head off, you’re making a point. But if you don’t tell anybody why you’re doing it, it’s not going to help your cause, is it?’
‘Cutting heads off doesn’t help anyone’s cause,’ Sid objected.
‘It does if your cause involves chopping people’s heads off. Then you’re preaching right at your niche market.”
― Slow Horses
‘Cutting heads off doesn’t help anyone’s cause,’ Sid objected.
‘It does if your cause involves chopping people’s heads off. Then you’re preaching right at your niche market.”
― Slow Horses
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
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“Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything — anything — to defend ourselves against that return.”
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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