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“blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“The post-Enlightenment man living in a liberal democracy believes he has a right to an opinion; post-Facebook, he also believes he has a right to his own reality.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
“he will listen as well, smiling warmly, as a guest invokes—as a theoretical physicist’s guest will do—Einstein’s theory of relativity as metaphor for some proposition in the social sciences.”
― In the Light of What We Know
― In the Light of What We Know
“Einstein wished to hell that he’d called it the theory of invariance, which is to say, he wished he’d given it a name whose meaning was exactly the opposite of relativity and which, he said, would have been just as accurate.”
― In the Light of What We Know
― In the Light of What We Know
“Neither he nor anyone else could have predicted that this overweight, rheumatic, vain, pompous, gluttonous inebriate would be so ardent in battle.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
Ignasi’s 2025 Year in Books
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