Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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We need to take more care of our environment. That means not only our personal environment but also our cities and our resources. That is the future of design.
~ Dieter Rams
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France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that’s why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it’s like shouting in a forest. There’s no echo.
~ Marc Chagall
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The hardest thing I ever did was keep my temper at that time.
~ George C. Marshall
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The best way to improve capitalism is to enable everyone to benefit from it directly as an equity owner. This is not a new idea, but it will be newly feasible as AI grows more powerful, because there will be dramatically more wealth to go around. The two dominant sources of wealth will be: (1) companies, particularly ones that make use of AI, and (2) land, which has a fixed supply.
~ Sam Altman
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
~ Che Guevara
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I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Because the life man sees is not the final end of things, the moment we attain to greatness of any kind by personal labour and will we become fragmentary, and find no task in active life which can use our finest faculties.
~ William Butler Yeats
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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson
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