Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
~ John Ruskin
Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The iPhone SE
turns 8 today
The iPhone SE was first released today – March 31 – in 2016.
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The iPhone SE
turns 8 today
The iPhone SE was first released today – March 31 – in 2016.
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Breakfast in America
was released on this day in 1979
Breakfast in America – the sixth studio album released by Supertramp – was released on this day – March 29 – in 1979 by A&M Records.
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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
~ H. L. Mencken
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An element of goodness may be found even in our worst enemy. Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. A persistent civil war rages within all or our lives.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A world dominated by the technologies of industrial society is fundamentally more detrimental than beneficial to human happiness and survival.
~ Kirkpatrick Sale
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Anthropologically, money should be defined as a semantic system, broadly similar to language; writing, or weights and measures. These systems differ mainly in the purposes served and the signs employed. Language and writing serve the purpose of the communication of ideas, weights and measures that of quantitative physical relationship. As to signs, language uses oral sounds; writing employs ideograms or visual characters; weights and measures, on the other hand, use physical objects as the basis of symbols.
― Karl Polanyi
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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