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Worryingly often, science studies are reconstructed and packaged for the cameras—with researchers routinely acting out their roles after the event—while contested or ambiguous results are shaped into dramatic new discoveries.
“No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea
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