When a problem threatens to engulf you, there’s nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
~ John le Carré
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardness yields, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~ Mark Twain
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People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
~ Iris Murdoch
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~ James Baldwin
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Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.
~ Sun Tzu
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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