A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
~ Walter Bagehot
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The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. To make Adam Smith’s “simple and natural liberty” compatible with the needs of a human society was a most complicated affair.
― Karl Polanyi
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As Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, political purges often serve as jobs programs.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.
~ Edmund Cooper
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Do I dare disturb the universe?
~ T.S. Eliot
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Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.
~ Arthur Koestler
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In its exclusion of links, minimization of text, and encouragement of gauzy filters, Instagram turns every smartphone into its own little Silver Pavilion, through which the user can both cultivate a world and blot out what they don’t wish to see.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
~ Toni Morrison
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
~ Niels Bohr
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Good design is unobtrusive.
~ Dieter Rams
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