2026-03-01, of eating and derailments
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2026-02-27, of effects and hallucinations
2026-02-26, of water and age
2026-02-25, of sleeping and snoring
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power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely – great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority
—Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Creighton (1887)
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops
—Stephen Jay Gould, “Wide Hats and Narrow Minds” (1979)
and, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human
—William Gibson, Count Zero (1986)