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Book cover for Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
Without ignoring the text, I normally put more weight on the statute’s purposes and the consequences to which a particular interpretation will likely lead. I will sometimes ask how a (hypothetical) “reasonable legislator” would have ...more
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Even though a strict reading of a Paleolithic diet would include cannibalism, it is a practice that I have to discourage. Modern people have a much higher ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids due to their grain-based diets; carry a wide variety of chronic infections; have destroyed their liver with excessive consumption of alcohol and fructose; and contain many environmental toxins. That said, if one were to incorporate cannibalism into ‘eating paleo,’ it would be healthiest to eat people who strictly adhered to the guidelines in this book.”
John Durant, The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

Chuck Klosterman
“It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.”
Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Mark Rippetoe
“You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.”
Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

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