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“Protests are not to solve a problem.
Protests are to expose a problem.”
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Protests are to expose a problem.”
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“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, legalize it . . . [Prohibition is] a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.”
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“Poetry endows our stay on earth and constitutes the only spiritual path. To name an object is to suppress three-quarters of the enjoyment to be found in a poem... suggestion, that is the dream.”
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“If you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent… The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is.”
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“. . . we hadn't even noticed when all this had been happening, the words "turning point" and "dawn of a new era" were hardly out of our mouths when precisely this critical, time-bound nature of a turning point and a dawn was rendered ludicrous as we realized that all of a sudden we were living in a new world, had entered a radically new era, and we understood none of it, because everything we had was obsolete, including our conditioned reflexes, our attempts to understand the nature of a process, how "all of this" had "consequently" proceeded from there to here, everything was as obsolete as our conviction to rely on experience, on sober rationality . . .”
― The World Goes On
― The World Goes On
HR’s 2025 Year in Books
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