Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
~ J.D. Salinger
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Time moves in one direction, memory another.
~ William Gibson
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My painting is like an iceberg where only a tenth of its volume is visible.
~ Salvador Dali
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“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: [a] Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; [b] Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; [c] Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; [d] Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; and, [e] Increased demand to live off the state.
~ Edward Gibbon
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People who pride themselves on their complexity and deride others for being simplistic should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.
~ Edmund Cooper
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