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- Conservatism without liberalism is blind; liberalism without conservatism is empty.
- The best politics is planting billions of trees — now.
- Like perfect justice, the music of J.S. Bach is full of symmetry.
- The states of the former confederacy still harbor the mythical belief that they are the true America. This mythical belief is like a rodent rotting behind a wall, stinking up the whole house.
- Stupidity is easily manipulated. It is better to be intelligently wrong than stupidly right — at least intelligence can adapt.
- If climate change kills vast swaths of life on earth, we couldn’t really say the project of modern civilization — science, technology, industry, nations — was a success, could we?
- Why is it so hard to ask governments not to take catastrophic risks for the sake of some transcendental idea or cause?
- It’s hard not to distrust anyone who wants to be president.
- There are only two types of presidents in American history: perfect (Lincoln) and flawed (the rest).The difference is simply that Lincoln kept his soul alive, and remained a man as president — the rest just became ‘Presidents’, played the part.
