A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~ Saul Bellow
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Monthly Archives: December 2023
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~ H. L. Mencken
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The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
~ Hannah Arendt
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The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Happy Boxing Day
Wishing a Happy Boxing Day to our readers in the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa and Bermuda.
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Merry Christmas
Best wishes all our readers who celebrate Christmas.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
~ Toni Morrison
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Jonathan Zittrain was born
on this day in 1969
Jonathan Zittrain – the American Internet law professor at Harvard – was born on December 24, 1969 – in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He is a graduate of both Yale University and Harvard University.
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Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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