We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.

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What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within one’s own psyche?

No, when the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill just like everybody else. I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me.

They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.