Essay (1879-05), "The Truth of Intercourse," Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 39 - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST Quotations

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. Collected as "Virginibus Puerisque, Part 4" in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch.…

The Coming US-China Thaw

James K. Galbraith sees signs that American strategists and politicians are finally waking up to economic realities.

Essay (1879-05), "The Truth of Intercourse," Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 39 - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST Quotations

The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. Collected "Virginibus Puerisque, Part 4" in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 1,…

President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board

Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 5, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (5.2/5.5) (43-01-01 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations

A man who does not see this is senseless; he who does see it, and still advocates such a measure, is impious. [Hoc qui non videt, excors; qui, cum videt, decernit, impius est.] On the suggestion that Mark Antony be bought off by giving him governorship of Transalpine Gaul, and…