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The poor do engage in strategic ignorance, but the rich do it better, not because of innate superiority, but due to having more political and economic power to structure laws in their favour. The power of the powerful, to put it simply, is contingent on this very tactic: the attempt to dominate systems of law.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
Ethics is not like any ordinary science. It must arise from the deepest understanding of human qualities, and such understanding comes only when one undertakes the journey of discovery personally. An ethic that is built exclusively on intellectual ideas and that is not buttressed at every point by virtue, genuine wisdom, and compassion has no solid foundation.
Happiness
Matthieu Ricard
a person’s destiny is something you look back at after it’s past, not something you see in advance.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
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