Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Good design makes a product understandable.
~ Dieter Rams
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Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
~ Milan Kundera
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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 Russian revolution was not a socialist revolution, but a managerial revolution. Today Russia is the nation which has, in its structural aspects, advanced furthest along the managerial road.
~ James Burnham
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Capitalism is a powerful engine of economic growth because it rewards people for investing in assets that generate value over time, which is an effective incentive system for creating and distributing technological gains. But the price of progress in capitalism is inequality.
~ Sam Altman
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
~ Che Guevara
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I think that the movement of our thought has more and more so separated certain images and regions of the mind, and that these images grow in beauty as they grow in sterility.
~ William Butler Yeats
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By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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