Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Luddism and science fiction concern themselves with the same questions: not merely what the technology does, but who it does it for and who it does it to.
~ Cory Doctorow
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The Fascist system has to carry on persistently the task begun by the Fascist Movement: the destruction of the democratic parties, organisations, and institutions in society. Fascism must then proceed to attempt to change the nature of human consciousness itself.
― Karl Polanyi
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The church that Joseph Smith set about building was almost achingly American. He held up the Constitution as a quasi-canonical work of providence. He published a new sacred text, the Book of Mormon, that centered on Jesus visiting the ancient Americas. He even taught that God had brought about the American Revolution so that his Church could be restored in a free country—thus linking Mormonism’s success to that of the American experiment. And yet, almost as soon as Smith started attracting converts, they were derided as un-American.
~ McKay Coppins via The Atlantic
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A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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Google Maps was launched
on this day in 2005
Google Maps was launched on this day – February 8 – in 2005.
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