Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has.
~ Franz Kafka
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Author Archives: Kristina Lutz-Jacobi
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Got a Lot on My Head – The Cars
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Daryl Hall & John Oates – Maneater
Daryl Hall & John Oates – Maneater (Official Video)
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
~ Milan Kundera
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~ Thomas Sowell
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The bottom line is that the abrupt rise in digital interaction following the arrival of the pandemic made knowledge work more tedious and exhausting, helping to fuel the waves of disruption that have followed. If we accept this interpretation of events, however, we must also accept the necessity of continuing to seek change. So long as these new and excessive levels of digital communication persist, more haphazard upheavals will inevitably follow.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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Midday Music Fix
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
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In theory, lobbying is a constitutionally protected form of redressing grievances. Businesses have every right to argue their case in front of government officials whose policies affect their industries. In practice, lobbying has become a pernicious force in national life, courtesy of corporate America, which hugely outspends other constituencies—labor unions, consumer and environmental groups—on an enterprise now dedicated to honing ever more sophisticated methods of shaping public opinion in service of its own ends.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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