In its exclusion of links, minimization of text, and encouragement of gauzy filters, Instagram turns every smartphone into its own little Silver Pavilion, through which the user can both cultivate a world and blot out what they don’t wish to see.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
~ Mark Twain
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John Mearsheimer | The Risk of Great Power Wars
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“Anyone who has a job as an academic administrator needs to be a happy warrior.”.
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.
~ Marlon James
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The iPhone 3G was released today – July 11 – in 2008.
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Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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