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That professional policy analysis has succeeded in elevating the technical over the political is a testament to the contemporary influence of technocratic ideologies.
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
But in life? Perhaps here different rules apply. You bet on a relationship, it fails; you go on to the next relationship, it fails too: and maybe what you lose is not two simple minus sums but the multiple of what you staked. That’s what it feels like, anyway. Life isn’t just addition and subtraction. There’s also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The books which help us become less cruel can be roughly divided
into (1} books which help us see the effects of social practices and institutions on others and (2} those which help us see the effects of our private
idiosyncrasies on others.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
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