No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
~ Charles Dickens
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Most Christians are superstitious rather than pious, and except for the name of Christ differ hardly at all from superstitious pagans.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
~ Pablo Picasso
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest.
~ Francesco Petrarca
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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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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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