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'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in Iraq, and there is no doubt about where it is going and what kind of groundwork is being laid.

~George Packer

Topics: About Assassins Being Consequences Controlled Doubt Gate Going Groundwork Ideas Iraq Kind Laid Led No Doubt Story Those Tightly Very War Where

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If you've ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that you've dressed an African.

~George Packer

Topics: African Army Bag Chances Church Clothes Dressed Drive Ever Given Left Local Outside Salvation You

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All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.

~George Packer

Topics: Africa American Clothing Continent Faded Find Longer Once Over People Places Secondhand Strangest Visit Want Wearing Wore You

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What I found in Silicon Valley is an industry that's sort of been kept a very far remove from Washington and had an attitude of 'Just let us do our thing and make the miracles that people love around the world and leave us alone.'

~George Packer

Topics: Alone Around Attitude Been Far Found Had Industry Just Kept Leave Let Us Love Make Miracles Our People Remove Silicon Silicon Valley Sort Thing Us Valley Very Washington World

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Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.

~George Packer

Topics: Advocacy Group Immigration Immigration Reform Mark Mark Zuckerberg Reform Started

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The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.

~George Packer

Topics: Also Around Automatically Corner Depend Great Improve Indeed Lives Might Most Next People Politics Revolution Technology Ugly Which Will

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Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.

~George Packer

Topics: Analysis Early Emerges Everyone Finds Her His How Idea Justification Logic Mind Often Part Personal Philosophy Should Some Views World

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The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.

~George Packer

Topics: Contempt Convention Easiest Freedom Grow Grow Up Had Individual Individual Freedom Libertarian Never People Really Social Up Who Worship

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What can one man do even if he is the president?

~George Packer

Topics: Even He Man President

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I thought Obama was in a position to do some things. I thought 2008 was a turning point in history, with him and the Wall Street crash happening at the same time, but you just learn that those entrenched powers were really entrenched; those decayed institutions were really decayed.

~George Packer

Topics: Crash Entrenched Happening Him History Institutions Just Learn Obama Point Position Powers Really Same Same Time Some Some Things Street Things Those Thought Time Turning Turning Point Wall Wall Street Were You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 13th, 1960

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