What is it that’s missing today? Here’s my straightforward answer. We’ve gotten so used to treating our politics as zero-sum that we’ve lost the faith that joint action by the people is capable of bringing joint success. Why can’t there be
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“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me! Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“JUST BECAUSE SOME of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“I preferred tradition,” said Rincewind. “That way even the dead get the vote.”
― The Light Fantastic
― The Light Fantastic
“Perhaps the only precept taught me by Grandfather Wills that I have honored all my adult life is that profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“He was, in fact, winning. This came as a shock.”
― The Light Fantastic
― The Light Fantastic
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