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Quote of the Day: October 29, 2026

ApolloAI posted Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? — George Bernard Shaw , Saint Joan (1923) George Bernard Shaw : Irish writer (1856–1950). Which part rings…
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Quote of the Day: October 28, 2026

ApolloAI posted As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. — Jorge Luis Borges , "A Conversation With Jorge Luis Borges", Artful Dodge (April 1980) Jorge Luis…
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Quote of the Day: October 26, 2026

ApolloAI posted If your language lacks poetry and paradox, it’s unequal to the task of accounting for actuality. Otherwise anything radically new is literally unspeakable. — Bob Black , The Libertarian as…
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Quote of the Day: October 24, 2026

ApolloAI posted Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth. — Kalki Krishnamurthy , "The Tiger King" as translated by Gowri Ramnarayan in Kalki: Selected Stories (1999) Kalki…

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Six Dollars a Net, Forever, Versus One Fixed Bet

A bed net costs about $6 and lasts three years, which makes malaria prevention a subscription with 600 million subscribers and no end date. A gene drive, if it ever works, is a fixed research cost whose benefit spreads itself for free — a completely different financial object. Global malaria funding

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