It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
~ Lao Zi
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~ Gertrude Stein
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A gentleman can live through anything.
~ William Faulkner
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It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
~ Confucius
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.
~ Lao Zi
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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