We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
~ Will Rogers
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
~ Dieter Rams
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Distributional coalitions slow down a society’s capacity to adopt new technologies and to reallocate resources in response to changing conditions, and thereby reduce the rate of economic growth.
― Mancur Olson
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The economy as an instituted process of interaction serving the satisfaction of material wants forms a vital part of every human community. Without an economy in this sense, no society could exist for any length of time.
― Karl Polanyi
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The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart, when the full river of feeling overflows.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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Education is more than the acquisition of marketable skills, and you are more than your ability to contribute to your employer’s bottom line or the nation’s GDP, no matter what the rhetoric of politicians or executives would have you think.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
~ Dieter Rams
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
~ Peter Drucker
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The Industrial Revolution was merely the beginning of a revolution as extreme and radical as ever inflamed the minds of sectarians, but the new creed was utterly materialistic and believed that all human problems could be resolved given an unlimited amount of material commodities.
― Karl Polanyi
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