I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment, mine must be cold logic.
~ George C. Marshall
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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The best way to increase societal wealth is to decrease the cost of goods, from food to video games.
~ Sam Altman
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Only the dead can be forgiven.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.
~ Franz Kafka
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Tate Liverpool Gallery
turns 36 today
The Tate Liverpool Gallery in Liverpool, England was opened on this day – May 24 – in 1988.
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What’s at stake, when we ask what college is for, is nothing less than our ability to remain fully human.
~ William Deresiewicz
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
~ Charles MacKay
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On the family tree of African American crime fiction, there is a direct genealogical link from Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones to Easy Rawlins and John Shaft, to Aaron Gunner, to Blanche White, to Marti MacAlister, to Larry Cole, to Cass Raines and Dayna Anderson.
~ S.A. Cosby via The New York Times
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