We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
~ Mark Twain
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Byte Magazine – September 1990
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
~ Albert Camus
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society – both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
~ Mark Twain
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
~ Henry David Thoreau
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A fate is not a punishment.
~ Albert Camus
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In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.
~ Mark Twain
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