Japan is the global imagination’s default setting for the future.
~ William Gibson
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
― Walter Benjamin
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George Orwell
Animal Farm
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But that which is useful is the better.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
~ William Gibson
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
― Walter Benjamin
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
~ Walter Bagehot
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If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
~ William Gibson
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