In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
~ Gertrude Stein
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The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Trust is to capitalism what alcohol is to wedding receptions: a social lubricant. In low-trust societies (Russia, southern Italy), economic growth is constrained. People who don’t trust other people think twice before investing in, collaborating with, or hiring someone who isn’t a family member (or a member of their criminal gang). The concept may sound squishy, but the effect isn’t.
~ Jerry Useem via The Atlantic
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
~ Toni Morrison
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We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.
~ William Gibson
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way—not his way.
~ Mark Rothko
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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