Faced with a growing number of chores, you push what you can onto other people’s plate, and they respond in kind. The result is an onslaught of ad hoc assignments, whipsawing across inboxes and chat channels, that culminates in a shared state of permanent overload.
~ Cal Newport via The Atlantic
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Steve Bannon – former chairman of Breitbart News Network and the American Rasputin – is a graduate of Harvard Business School – class of 1985.
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It was one of those nights when the sky came down and wrapped itself around the world. The rain clawed at the windows of the bar like an angry cat and tried to sneak in every time some drunk lurched in the door. The place reeked of stale beer and soggy men with enough cheap perfume thrown in to make you sick.
~ Mickey Spillane via The Big Kill (1951)
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We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There will be time, there will be time. To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
~ T.S. Eliot
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A document called “syllabus” persists, and is still distributed to prospective students at the start of each semester—but its function as a course plan has been minimized, if not entirely erased. First and foremost, it must satisfy a drove of bureaucratic needs, describing school policies, accreditation demands, regulatory matters, access to campus resources, health and safety guidelines, and more.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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I had never encountered anything like the world or the words of Chester Himes. But I knew I wanted more. The next book I devoured was “Blind Man With a Pistol,” a deeply twisted and morally ambiguous novel about the senseless nature of violence. A work that is both terrifying and philosophical, it was a watershed moment for this young wannabe writer that also just happens to have one of the most fearless endings in crime fiction history.
~ S.A. Cosby via The New York Times
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“Libertarianism is a half-baked ideology that a certain type of young man gravitates to because he is unwilling – or perhaps unable – to think beyond his sociopathic self absorption.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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