We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
~ Joan Didion
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
~ John Steinbeck
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When dinner from a restaurant replaces dinner in a restaurant, we lose track of all the other people who are dining as well. Part of the transformation of daily life wrought by Amazon and online retailing more generally, this hyper-individualization of consumption may bring a new political revolution as well.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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The most notable change of these tumultuous years, the ability to spend more time working from home, hasn’t been a cure-all. Something’s still wrong, above and beyond the usual challenges of office life. Everyone’s tired. What started with the Great Resignation has become the Great Exhaustion.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Pat Benatar – Le Bel Age
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We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. It has always bothered me how even ordinary conversations tend to be defined by what we tell rather than by what we ask. Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
~ Auguste Comte
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