The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Both artists and neurotics speak and live from the subconscious and unconscious depths of their society. The artist does this positively, communicating what he experiences to his fellow men. The neurotic does this negatively.
~ Rollo May
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Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves.
~ William Gibson
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No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
~ James Baldwin
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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
~ Mark Twain
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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
~ Pythagoras
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What happens on the imperial level also happens at the local level, within the United States and the Western European societies that make the rules of globalization. Non-technocrats, whether they are the resentful members of the old working class or just people wisecracking about the progressive pieties of corporate human resource managers, are not going to be permitted to tangle up the system with their demands.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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