The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
― Walter Benjamin
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Daily Archives: February 14, 2024
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During seasons of great pestilence, men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come.
~ Charles MacKay
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word not as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Once upon a time, American households contained large numbers of people and a single TV set. At peak viewing times, the whole family would have to agree on a show. Dad might want an action drama, Mom might want an edgy comedy, one of the kids might want something creative, another might want something scary, but everybody liked nature shows. So that’s what the network aired on a Sunday night. Network executives described their task as inventing “the least objectionable program.” As a candidate for president, Biden may be the “least objectionable” since Dwight Eisenhower (who won reelection in 1956 despite a near-fatal heart attack the year before).
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
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It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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