Men gather the clouds, and then they complain of the tempests that follow.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
~ Walter Bagehot
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
― Michel Foucault
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The wiser nations are, the more public spirit they possess, the more perfect their political constitution, the fewer constitutional laws they have, for these laws are only props, and a building only needs props when it has become out of plumb or when it has been violently shaken by an external force.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
~ Walter Bagehot
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
~ H. L. Mencken
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