There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
~ John Ruskin
Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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There is fear and intolerance in pride; it is sensitive and uncompromising. The less promise and potency in the self, the more imperative is the need for pride. The core of pride is self-rejection.
~ Eric Hoffer
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There are persons who come to the point that they are so self-centered that they end up with a persecution complex and the end result is insanity. They end up thinking that the universe stands against them, that everybody is against them. They are turning around within themselves. They are little solar systems within themselves and they can’t see beyond that.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Here is tragedy—and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.
~ H. L. Mencken
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The iPhone XR
turns 6 today
The iPhone XR was released today – October 26 – in 2018.
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The iPhone 12
turns 4 today
The iPhone 12 was released today – October 23 – in 2020.
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What happens in Johannesburg affects Birmingham, however indirectly. We are descendants of the Africans. Our heritage is Africa. We should never seek to break the ties, nor should the Africans.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The economy as an instituted process of interaction serving the satisfaction of material wants forms a vital part of every human community. Without an economy in this sense, no society could exist for any length of time.
― Karl Polanyi
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Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.
~ Edmund Cooper
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The iPhone 4s
turns 13 today
The iPhone 4s was released today – October 14 – in 2011.
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