The nineteenth century gave birth to two sets of events of a very different order of magnitude: the machine age, a development of millennial range; and the market system, an initial adjustment to that development.
― Karl Polanyi
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Category Archives: 1259 – Quote Unquote
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The real struggle is between order and anarchy.
~ Edmund Cooper
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Instagram creates a disarming sense of intimacy with people you’ve never met.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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African folklore is just so lush. There’s something so relentless and sensual about African mythology.
~ Marlon James
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
~ John Steinbeck
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Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience.
~ Niels Bohr
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I didn’t intend the 10 principles of good design to be set in stone forever.
~ Dieter Rams
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
~ Dean Acheson
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
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