Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
~ Mark Twain
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The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?
~ Hannah Arendt
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Forgotten Software
Aldus Freehand
Stumbled upon this advertisement for Aldus Freehand in an old issue of Wired Magazine that I found underneath my childhood bed at my mom’s house near Hilton, New York.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
~ Mark Twain
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them.
~ Hannah Arendt
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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren’t open that early.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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