Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy, but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
~ 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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As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The new Luddites—a growing contingent of workers, critics, academics, organizers, and writers—say that too much power has been concentrated in the hands of the tech titans, that tech is too often used to help corporations slash pay and squeeze workers, and that certain technologies must not merely be criticized but resisted outright.
~ Brian Merchant via The Atlantic
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In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
~ John le Carré
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
~ Peter Drucker