Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by Cal Newport
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe.
~ Lewis Mumford
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The dialectical concept of reality as a social process dissolves the fetishistic forms produced by the capitalist mode of production and enables us to see them as mere illusions which are not less illusory for being seen to be necessary.
~ György Lukács
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Happy Monday, Buffs! 🔆
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There needs to be something in your life of a goddess of Nemesis which pulls you down when you get too high and pulls you up when you feel the sense of inadequacy and that is what religion at its best does. It keeps you to the point that you don’t feel like you are too low and you don’t feel like you are too high but you’ll maintain that type of balance.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
~ Rollo May
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