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Almost everyone continues to assume that in its fundamental nature, social life is based on the principle of reciprocity, and therefore that all human interaction can best be understood as a kind of exchange. If so, then debt really is at the root of all morality, because debt is what happens when some balance has not yet been restored.
Nearly 20 percent of American presidents were close relatives of each other. That’s a lot more than chance and fair competition suggest.
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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