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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Monthly Archives: March 2024
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If Raymond Chandler is considered the poet of crime fiction and Samuel Dashiell Hammett its great journalist, then Chester Himes is the songwriter of the downtrodden. His stories sing with a fire and light that comes from a simmering sense of loss. A loss of respect, of humanity, of honor.
~ S.A. Cosby via The New York Times
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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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San Diego State University
turns 127 today
San Diego State University was established on this day – March 13 – in 1897.
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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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The only reason why God created man is because
he was disappointed with the monkey.
~ Mark Twain
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Campus Life at the
Birkbeck, University of London
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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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