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I never exchanged a word with the Colonel. He has no significance at all in what happened during my stay in Oxgodby. As far as I’m concerned he might just as well have gone round the corner and died. But that goes for most of us, doesn’t ...more
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Richard H. Thaler
“You know, at some point people reach an age at which they can no longer be considered ‘promising.’ I think it is about the time they turn forty.”
Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Tim Shipman
“The mood music was good as Trump showed his serious side in the closed meeting. A Downing Street source said, "He was on top of any number of quite complex briefs and he'd only been president for a week. That impressed Theresa [May] because she's a details girl.”
Tim Shipman, Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem

Ben Lerner
“Sima made a space for me to hear that there were depths beneath what I was saying that I hadn't sounded yet.”
Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

“In fact, attempts to deter substance abuse through drug testing in prisons is actually making this gateway effect more severe. Cannabis and its breakdown products can be detected in urine for weeks, whereas heroin clears from the body much faster. Testing positive for drugs can result in an increase in sentence, so prisoners have found a way to reduce the likelihood of being caught: use heroin instead of cannabis. Far from protecting them, imprisoning cannabis users will make them more likely to start using hard drugs.”
David Nutt, Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimizing the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs

Jon Ronson
“‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.”
Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

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