The news leak is a pseudo‑event par excellence. In its origin and growth, the leak illustrates another axiom of the world of pseudo‑events: pseudo‑events produce more pseudo‑events.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
~ Mark Twain
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A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
~ Mark Twain
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Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Wired Magazine – January 1997 Issue
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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
~ Mark Twain
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