It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
~ John Steinbeck
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
― Walter Benjamin
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Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
― Walter Benjamin
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Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man’s life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
~ Walter Bagehot
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The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.
~ William Gibson
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
― Walter Benjamin
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
~ Walter Bagehot
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