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“Close friends, and good books. In the absence of the former, the latter is an alarmingly good substitute.”

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“We are too sloppy thinkers to deserve the luxury of leaving logic implicit.”

Logic Error Explicitness

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“Readers want to be exercised, not informed. It's not the amplitude of the signal that matters, but how much it resonates.”

Reading Information Resonance

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“No writer is great unless he also has the knack of stirring up associations in his readers' minds with every phrase.”

Great Writers Associations

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“When I write an article, I aim for it to shrink the diameter of intellectual space. It should make connections, make the reader's world a little more coherent.”

Writing Connections Coherence

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“There is a fundamental conflict between intellectual and political life... The essence of the intellectual life is the impulse to analyze everything indiscriminately, to understand the explanations for everything. The essence of political success is the contrary habit. Whatever one's internal understanding of the world, one must train oneself never to express those conclusions needlessly, for they may offend. Truth must be offered up by teaspoons, always with a purpose.”

Truth Political Life Intellectual Life

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