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Monthly Archives: May 2024
Campus Life at the
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Our lives are shaped by networks: of family, friends, and colleagues, or the wider ones that encompass neighbors and fellow citizens. We exist in relation to others. And yet novels, beginning almost as soon as Don Quixote set out on his quest, have long fixated on the individual as a shaper of his or her fate, as the fundamental unit for a story. The individual acts or is acted upon, and narrative results from this tension.
~ Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Campus Life at the
Cal State Long Beach
Campus Life at the
University of Kansas
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When I paint my object is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for. In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by facts and not by reasons.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
~ Dieter Rams
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History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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The sea with its charms saddens me. In its joyful moods, it makes me think of the laughing tiger; in its sad moods it recalls the crocodile’s tears, and in its roaring fury, the caged monster that cannot swallow me up.
~ Gustave Courbet
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Liars are exhausting people.
~ Walter Kirn
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