The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.
~ Charles Dickens
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
~ Pablo Picasso
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What I am especially bothered by today is that, particularly in the media, design is being used as a ‘lifestyle asset.’ I’m bothered by the arbitrariness and the thoughtlessness with which many things are produced and brought to the market.
~ Dieter Rams
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I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
~ George C. Marshall
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“Moore’s Law for everything” should be the rallying cry of a generation whose members can’t afford what they want. It sounds utopian, but it’s something technology can deliver (and in some cases already has).
~ Sam Altman
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
~ Roger Scruton
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Seek out reality, leave things that seem.
~ William Butler Yeats
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
~ Blaise Pascal
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