In summarizing the action of a drama, the writer should always use the present tense.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
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A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think.
― Michel Foucault
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Part of the pleasure of Instagram is the way it edits out the ugly emotions that make up so much of the rest of social media.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees in himself. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
~ Iris Murdoch
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