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** FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2023
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As for the state, it never entered an Athenian’s head that it could interfere with his private life: that it could see, for instance, that his children were taught to be patriotic, or limit the amount of liquor he could buy, or compel him to save for his old age. Everything like that a citizen of Athens had to decide himself and take full responsibility for.
– Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way ([link removed]) [1930]
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November 29, 2023
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If your doctor gets the diagnosis wrong, it is almost certain that he’s going to get the prescription wrong. If he concludes, for example, that your stomach ache is nothing more than indigestion, when the problem actually is cancer, the medicine he prescribes is probably not going to do you much good. The same holds true for diagnoses for ailments that afflict the ...
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