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To be thinking is to be alive. Thinking feels like just being. We don’t know that silence and space can even exist between thoughts, that we can exist in the absence of thinking. Furthermore, we don’t know that thoughts can appear and we can choose to decline their invitation, decide not to engage in their content. We don’t know another way of living, other than thinking.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
The US is producing more oil than ever before. The nation’s crude oil production hit [13.2](https://t.densediscovery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.chartr.co%2Fnewsletters%2F2023-11-27%3Futm_source=DenseDiscovery-267/1/0100018c36c7b4b8-d42ccb76-2e4e-4662-aaec-b5a6b60a9bcf-000000/PByM6uuwqqeT_oZuGTOP6fEBDvcA2AFEwX2lkHdOoIU=329) million barrels per day, surpassing the pre-Covid peak.
267 / the Most Important Metric for Creative Work: Resonance
Dense Discovery
Here are two important, and related, questions: Can we debate issues pertaining to race while honoring principles such as freedom of thought and expression that are essential to the maintenance of a democratic republic? Will our intense disagreements over such things as monuments and defunding the police destroy what Lincoln called “the bonds of affection” that enable us to recognize one another as fellow citizens—not mortal enemies—despite our differences?
Free Speech Prevails at Princeton | Robert P. George
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