#cia

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses ↗

— Kathryn Schulz

#social-sciences #science

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct ↗

— Kathryn Schulz

#social-science #science

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#gossip #party #social-disease #artists

I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level. ↗

— Paul Taylor

#demo #everything #i #i do #know

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#bluegrass #blues #classical #creative #i

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#science #social-behavior #science

Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#solitude #life

Speaking more generally about what attracted him to bluegrass banjo, he said it was 'just the sound of the instrument, and then the fire, you know; the speed and all that. I was attracted by the intensity of it, really. And I was drawn to that incredible clarity-- when something is going along real fast and every note is absolutely clear. That, to me, was really amazing-- the Earl Scruggs instrumentals...' But Garcia refused to commit himself to just one style of music. Though bluegrass became his overriding obsession for about two years, he still dabbled in folk, old-timey and blues whenever the opportunity arose and there were players around. ↗

— Blair Jackson

#earl-scruggs #garcia #life

Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#nazism #social-darwinism #life

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#science