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• The fiercest of all tribal warriors is the universalist.
  
  
• We invent metrics partly to dignify arguments, but mostly to disguise them.
  
  
• "The industry of making economic predictions earns merely normal returns." --McCloskey
  
  
• Best sex scene in a movie: Office Space.
  
  
• When we say it's not the money, it's always the money; and when we say it's the money, it's always something else.
  
  
• It's time to get speech out of politics.
  
  
• Humanity has progressed vastly with how, less with what, and not at all with why.
  
  
• Journalists write stories about their imminent obsolescence in an attempt to forestall it indefinitely.
  
  
• Today, no matter how stupid you are, it's almost impossible to be original.
  
  
• Your shelves should not contain the books you've read, but the books you're going to read.
  
  
• The most pleasing aesthetic effect is the happy accident.
  
  
• "The manner in which you behave toward the dead makes a great impression on the living." --Santa Cruz
  
  
• History, in one sense, is a succession of ever-widening protection rackets.