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larryhammerGallup liked to say that pollsters take the “pulse of democracy.” “Although you can take a nation’s pulse,” E. B. White wrote after the [1948] election, “you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.”
—from "Politics and the New Machine," by Jill Lepore
The paradox of unanimity.
Why you shouldn't pick the low-hanging fruit first. (via)
---L.
Subject quote from "Once in a Lifetime," Talking Heads.
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Date: 12 February 2016 11:20 pm (UTC)It is most extremely annoying that Google's ngram viewer cuts off at 1800. All the really interesting stuff is before then...
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