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Bad Apple Proverbs: There's One In Every Bunch : NPR - 0 views

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    it can be a more effective defense to offer a proverb that closes down the discussion with a bit of venerable folk wisdom - in this case, one about not letting a few rotten apples spoil the bushel. As it happens, that's nothing like what the proverb meant to those venerable folk who coined it, who actually knew their apples. But proverbs fly too low to the ground to be examined or questioned. They're there to replace reflection with packaged verities. That's how they can come to signify opposite things without losing a whit of their wisdom in the process. As the French put it Proverbe ne peut mentir, "A proverb can't lie." But of course that's a proverb too.
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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR - 0 views

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    The vast majority of the world's books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It's just numbers.
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How Inequality Hurts Societies | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook - 0 views

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    New global research on equality, inequality, and the happiness of nations. It's an American issue.
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