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Many civic institutions tend to ignore, when they do not actively discourage, the better natures of the citizenry. People are individually altruistic social animals who nonetheless teach themselves to be selfish in the public sphere.

People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be wicked; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of indolence.

 

Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to simplistic theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, there productive approaches have long been highly elusive.

 

His idea to make money by building a drone that could fly from the West Coast to Hawaii while continuously sending back low-altitude weather data is a characteristically quixotic project. The dearth of good storm-intensity forecasts has huge economic costs, but filling that need won't automatically generate big profits because the economic benefits are so widely diffused.

 

Rhetoric often seems to prevail over reason in a heated debate, with both sides engaging in hyperbole.

 

To the avid reader of E.O. Wilson, much of his most recent book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge will be predictable, as the book represents the culmination of a life spent thinking about everything from the social lives of ants to the social lives of people. Nonetheless, new thoughts have been mixed in with the old to produce a book remarkable for its purview and ambition.

 

Historical research makes two somewhat antithetical truths that sounded banal come to seem profound: knowledge of the past comes entirely from written documents, giving written words great consequence, and the more material you uncover, the more elusive your subject becomes.

 

With the numerous opponents of the controversial new taxation measure in such a fury, anyone who publicly advocated the measure did not fail to meet with severe usage.

 

Much fuss has been made over the significance of emerging trade networks in the High Middle Ages. It is incontrovertible that local trading intensified (as in the Hanseatic League) and that enterprising merchants (such as Marco Polo) established contact with distant lands. Nevertheless, despite these few counterexamples, research has not substantiated that the norm was anything other than the traditional, self-sufficient manorial holding.

 

Poetry, unlike other types of literature, does not try to broaden our knowledge only by discovering a heretofore unknown world. Instead it tries to intensify our understanding through reflection on what is already nearest to us but normally escapes our attention because they are so familiar. Poetry leads us by finding refreshingly novel the things that are prosaic.