Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.
~ Milan Kundera
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Monthly Archives: January 2025
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Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.
~ Jenny Odell
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Campus Life at
University of Strathclyde
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If Robert Putnam felt the first raindrops of an antisocial revolution in America, the downpour is fully here, and we’re all getting washed away in the flood. From 2003 to 2022, American men reduced their average hours of face-to-face socializing by about 30 percent. For unmarried Americans, the decline was even bigger—more than 35 percent. For teenagers, it was more than 45 percent. Boys and girls ages 15 to 19 reduced their weekly social hangouts by more than three hours a week. In short, there is no statistical record of any other period in U.S. history when people have spent more time on their own.
~ Derek Thompson via The Atlantic
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The over-bearing insolence of ignorant men, who had arisen to sudden wealth by successful gambling, made men of true gentility of mind and manners blush that gold should have power to raise the unworthy in the scale of society.
~ Charles MacKay
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Campus Life at
Michigan State University
Campus Life at
SUNY Buffalo
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We need political support to solve the problems with our environment and how we should shape our cities. As designers, we shouldn’t be doing this for ourselves, but for our community.
~ Dieter Rams
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots.
~ Anton Chekhov
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