Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
~ Gertrude Stein
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In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
~ Hannah Arendt
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
~ William Faulkner
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
~ Mark Twain
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All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. …
You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.
~ Gertrude Stein
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If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
~ Hannah Arendt
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The artist is of no importance.
~ William Faulkner
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