Daily Archives: October 29, 2024
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotence.
~ Albert Camus
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Campus Life at
the University of Leeds
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy, but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford
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The past and future have meaning because they are part of the present: a past event has existence now because you are thinking of it at this present moment, or because it influences you so that you, as a living being in the present, are that much different.
~ Rollo May
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Campus Life at
Eastern New Mexico University
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Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
~ Franz Kafka
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