A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that she remakes it in his own image.
~ Joan Didion
Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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The iPhone 5C was released on this day in 2013
The iPhone 5C was released today – September 20 – in 2013.
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The iPhone 8 was released on this day in 2017
The iPhone 8 was released today – September 22 – in 2017.
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The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression:
From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
~ Auguste Comte
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Foreknowledge is power.
~ Auguste Comte
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
~ Auguste Comte
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If the arts flow from science, the neglect of science must destroy the consequent arts.
~ Auguste Comte
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We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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Every science may be exhibited under two methods or procedures, the historical and the dogmatic.
~ Auguste Comte
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