Hang On

“Without taking credit for his discoveries Tocqueville gives political science three new features not seen before—the concept of the social state (état social), the notion of those like oneself (semblables), and the practice of making predictions.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“While the West was developing a whole food abundance by-product industry ranging from “stay in shape” movements to armies of dietitians, Soviet people stood in lines, or used all kinds of irregular distribution systems, such as “gift sets” (podarochnye nabory) for employees of companies and organizations, to get access to high demand items varying from canned crab meat to even canned green peas and high-end cold cuts.”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

“The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick