Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Wired Issue – 10.04 – April 2002
Ten years ago this month.
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.
~ Umberto Eco
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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To survive, you must tell stories.
~ Umberto Eco
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If experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H. L. Mencken
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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