A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it&#39;s not that hope is going to save you.

If we think of politics as an industry, we might delight in its new "labour-saving efficiency", but if we think of politics as democratic deliberation, to leave people out is to miss the whole point of the exercise.

At depth, microbes shrink in size and become extremely sluggish. The liveliest of them may divide no more than once a century18, some no more than perhaps once in five hundred years. As The Economist has put it: ‘The key to long life, it seems, is not to do too much19.

Written By Annie Dillard

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