It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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Both Franz Kafka and the Bible are inexhaustible sources of meaning because they overflow any box we build around them. They exist on a plane of Western consciousness so formative of ours today that they seem to come from everywhere and nowhere.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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What if we spent less time shouting into the void and being washed over with shouting in return-and more time talking in rooms to those for whom our words are intended?
~ Jenny Odell
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Hannah Fry was born
on this day in 1984
Hannah Fry — the British academic and television presenter — was born on this day — February 21, 1984 — in Harlow, England.
She is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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At whatever point on the scientific horizon I begin my researches, I invariably reach this one conclusion: The solution to the problems of human relationships is to be found in liberty.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Michel Houellebecq doesn’t just forecast current events; he satirizes them, dryly, with perfect pitch. His mimicry of the inflated language of marketing, bureaucratic euphemism, and hypertechnical mumbo jumbo finds the exact midpoint between amusing and appalling.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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I suggest that we reimagine #FOMO as #NOMO, the necessity of missing out.
~ Jenny Odell
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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