Found this among a bundle of essays I had written as part of my undergraduate degree back in the late 80s.
Financial World Magazine
October 17, 1989
World War II – The Economic Aftermath
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.
~ William Faulkner
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The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.
~ Neil Postman via The Atlantic
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If two or more clauses, grammatically complete and not joined by a conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of punctuation is a semicolon.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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A good artist lets her intuition lead her wherever it wants.
~ Lao Zi
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Avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure.
~ William Faulkner
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Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist—all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.
~ Neil Postman via The Atlantic
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