Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T.S. Eliot
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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
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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Narratives do a lot to drive what our world looks like. They shape how we see ourselves, how we see our fellow citizens, how our elected officials see us—and what they do in reaction to those narratives can have far-reaching consequences.
~ Jerusalem Demsas via The Atlantic
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~ Thomas Sowell
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