I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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Resitance is by nature reactive; it is not forward-looking.
~ Mark Lilla
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In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The New Luddites see a moment rife with exploitation and challenges, in which tech is used to oppress, squeeze, or surveil. Yet that moment is also rife with hope for a future in which technologies are not “foisted” upon ordinary people; one in which more of us have a stake in how that future is made.
~ Brian Merchant via The Atlantic
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Never do any enemy a small injury for they are like a snake which is half beaten and it will strike back the first chance it gets.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes the system likely to oscillate.
~ Donella Meadows
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Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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