“Theres no drilling currently happening in Vermont, which is believed to have little to no reserves of oil or natural gas.”
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“It looks as if the world has gone quiet.”
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“The general trend at most points in Western history has been that upper-class people sit in a certain type of chair – typically the crappiest, most damaging design available at the time – and everyone else tries to imitate them.”
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“Where was the discussion, the trenchant analysis, or the fundamental debate about how and why the collectivist solutions failed, which should have been so pervasive that it would have percolated down from the educated classes to the bright 18-year-olds?”
and,
“We need to know why a system that began with the desire to free people from their chains ended by imprisoning them behind a wall.”
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“Well guess what. The rising middle class in the rest of the world wants the same thing.”
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“But to be data driven sounds uncomfortably like Captain Ahab who was whale driven.”
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“They are also more likely than others to have bought their most recent book, rather than borrowed it, and they are more likely than others to say they prefer to purchase books in general, often starting their search online.”
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“Musicianers, as they were called…”
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