Good design is unobtrusive.
~ Dieter Rams
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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The best Russian realist conflicts with the realism of Courbet. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissaro.
~ Marc Chagall
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Ideologies capable of influencing and winning the acceptance of great masses of people are an indispensable verbal cement holding the fabric of any given type of society together.
~ James Burnham
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
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The value of land appreciates because of the work society does around it: the network effects of the companies operating around a piece of land, the public transportation that makes it accessible, and the nearby restaurants, coffeeshops, and access to nature that makes it desirable. Because the landowner didn’t do all that work, it’s fair for that value to be shared with the larger society that did.
~ Sam Altman
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Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
~ Che Guevara
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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
~ Blaise Pascal
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