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A champion of the poor, Dickens created armies of extraordinary characters, and the vast tableaux that emerged played a crucial part in society's awakening social conscience. As a novelist and social commentator, Dickens became one of the age's most famous figures.

Replaced instead by another feeling, deeply unfamiliar. Another in-betweeness, but between what and what, she'd no idea.

dark artwork mirrors the hidden malevolence of "The Tyger," in this, perhaps the best loved, poem from Songs of Experience. In the poem, Blake poses a series of questions that marvel at the subject's majesty. Few readers would have seen a real tiger but knew that it symbolized power and strength. The clue to the poet's intention comes in the last lines. Could a God who made the meek lamb also create the fierce tiger?

...his vision included free education, old-age pensions, and public works for the unemployed, all funded by a scaled income tax that would favor the poor.

Paine posited the then radical view that governments have a responsibility to protect the natural and civil rights of their citizens, ensuring their freedom, security, and equal opportunity. And, that crucially, should a government fail to safeguard those rights, then the people would be justified in overthrowing it.

Adam Smith argued that free markets weeded out the inefficient and simultaneously rewarded the enterprising. At the heart of this process was self-interest. By maximizing individual profits in a free market, the prosperity of the nation as a whole was increased.

Laterally encourage an autonomous, self-learning agent. Then nudge it toward greater agency. It helps that they're mad for AI there, though they've scarcely anything we'd consider that. By tracing historical fault lines around AI research here, we found what we needed there. Fault lines between the most reckless entrepreneurialism and certain worst-case examples of defense contracting.

That soundless rain will fall forever in my heart.

To use my hard-won skills without calling up any complicated thoughts. To avoid getting mixed up with Ideas, or Metaphors, or anything along those lines.

You have drunk from the river, have you not? Now each of your actions will generate an equivalent response, in accordance with the principle of connectivity. Such is the place you have come to.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

…its thickets, threw such a warm light on the aspen trunks that they looked like pines, and their leaves were almost a dark blue, while above them rose a pale blue sky, faintly tinged by the glow of sunset. The swallows flew high; the wind had quite died away, belated bees hummed slowly and drowsily among the lilac blossom; a swarm of midges hung like a cloud over a solitary branch which stood out against the sky.

And if you come to think of it, how could they fail to follow you! In old days, young men had to study; they didn't want to be called dunces, so they had to work hard whether they liked it or not. But now, they need only say, "Everything in the world is foolery!" and the trick's done. Young men are delighted. And, to be sure, they were simply geese before, and now they have suddenly turned nihilists.'

'Yes, yes. First a pride almost Satanic, then ridicule—that, that's what it is attracts the young, that's what gains an ascendancy over the inexperienced hearts of boys! Here's one of them sitting beside you, ready to worship the ground under your feet. Look at him!...And this plague has spread far already.

It's hard to put into words. I feel as if I lost track of something along the way, and have been searching for it ever since. Don't you think that's how everyone falls in love?

The tower like a one-eyed great goose
cranes up out of the olive-grove,

And we have heard the fauns chiding Proteus
in the smell of hay under the olive-trees,
And the frogs singing against the fauns
in the half-light.
And...

(Ezra Pound)

In the wave-runs by the half-dune;
Glass-glint of wave in the tide-rips against sunlight,
pallor of Hesperus,
Grey peak of the wave,
wave, colour of grape's pulp,

Olive grey in the near,
far, smoke grey of the rock-slide,
Salmon-pink wings of the fish-hawk
cast grey shadows in water,

'Nature, too, is foolery in the sense you understand it. Nature's not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.'

But to Nikolai, there remained the sense of a well-spent life, his son was growing up under his eyes; Pavel, on the contrary, a solitary bachelor, was entering upon that indefinite twilight period of regrets that are akin to hopes, and hopes that are akin to regrets, when youth is over, while old age has not yet come.