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“He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts missing cuff bu...”
“He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as rea...”
“At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally. But even then his concentration was marred,...”
“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, its a weak force. Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think ...”
