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“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Think about it...
The Republicans have gone from Abraham Lincoln to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump.
No wonder they don't believe in evolution.”
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The Republicans have gone from Abraham Lincoln to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump.
No wonder they don't believe in evolution.”
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“I want the president of the United States to be intellectually curious for a simple reason: I think the person running the country should be smarter than I am. We’ve just lived through the alternative, and it was only good for the liquor industry.”
― Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
― Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
“Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history, he's under the impression that Andrew Jackson, who died in 1845, was angry about the Civil War, and that Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, is still alive.
Given the alarming state of his knowledge, you might wonder what job he could get. Unfortunately, he's not hypothetical, and the job he got, in 2016, was president of the United States.”
― Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
Given the alarming state of his knowledge, you might wonder what job he could get. Unfortunately, he's not hypothetical, and the job he got, in 2016, was president of the United States.”
― Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
“An elementary school student in South Carolina stumped him with a gotcha question even more challenging than Hiller’s about the president of Chechnya: What was his favorite book as a child? “I can’t remember any specific books,” he said. Later, responding to a similar query in a written questionnaire, he summoned an answer: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Though that book might have been his favorite, it was published a year after he graduated from Yale.”
― Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
― Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
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