Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category Archives: 0859 – Quote Unquote
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
~ John le Carré
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Success in school is not the same thing as success in life. University administrators in the James Conant mold assumed that people who could earn high grades would continue to excel later in their career.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?
~ David Foster Wallace
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You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
~ David Foster Wallace
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What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves.
~ David Foster Wallace
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In the early days of the pandemic, it became harder for us to see one another. The human face, the ultimate marker of individuality, what the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas called “the first disclosure,” was suddenly sheathed in fabric. Strangers encountered on the street were even stranger—and the masks that covered their visage became a screen on which to project anxious thoughts.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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Resitance is by nature reactive; it is not forward-looking.
~ Mark Lilla
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The people is a political term, not to be confused with the public. From the people comes political support or opposition; from the public comes artistic appreciation or commercial patronage.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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