Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
~ A. J. Liebling
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A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.
~ Timothy Snyder
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
~ Joan Didion
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Simple awareness is the seed of responsibility.
~ Jenny Odell
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The succes of a brand on the long term is not based on a number of consumers that buy it once, but on the number of consumers who become regular buyers of the brand.
~ Jacob Jacoby
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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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Happy St Piran’s Day
Wishing all of our readers in Cornwall a Happy St Piran’s Day.
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Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.
~ Marcel Proust
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