Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The New Luddites see a moment rife with exploitation and challenges, in which tech is used to oppress, squeeze, or surveil. Yet that moment is also rife with hope for a future in which technologies are not “foisted” upon ordinary people; one in which more of us have a stake in how that future is made.
~ Brian Merchant via The Atlantic
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
~ John le Carré
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No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
~ Peter Drucker
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
~ John Ruskin
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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
~ Dorothy Catherine Fontana
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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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