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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and are as productive in the same way.
~ Jenny Odell
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Computers are far better at formal computation and formal reasoning, but humans are far better mathematicians.
~ William Thurston
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
~ Milan Kundera
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Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?
~ Pablo Picasso
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Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
~ Marcel Proust
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To save all we must risk all.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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In the chariot there sat a tall stranger of a majestic aspect; his long black hair floated in the wind—fire flashed from his large black eyes, and a curl of ineffable scorn dwelt upon his lips. The look of the stranger was so sublime that he was awed, and trembled with fear when he gazed upon him.
~ Charles MacKay
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