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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ Milan Kundera
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It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
~ Diane Arbus
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The Democrats banked on the idea that classic mommy-party traits—nurturing, fretting about life’s dangers—would appeal to voters worried about the chaos of Trumpism. Instead, their warnings came across as scolding, while Donald Trump’s wild antics were either embraced by his party as a selling point or dismissed as the harmless by-product of his showmanship.
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
~ Claude Shannon
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Satirists are famously also moralists, and Michel Houellebecq is no exception. Indeed, he’s a religious writer, even though his scabrous novels usually scoff at established religion.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Chekhov
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A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers. From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
~ Milan Kundera
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