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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Category Archives: 1259 – Quote Unquote
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.
~ Edmund Cooper
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
~ T.S. Eliot
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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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Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.
~ Marlon James
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It is the duty of the writer to lift up, to extend, to encourage. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.
~ John Steinbeck
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
~ Niels Bohr
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What I am especially bothered by today is that, particularly in the media, design is being used as a ‘lifestyle asset.’ I’m bothered by the arbitrariness and the thoughtlessness with which many things are produced and brought to the market.
~ Dieter Rams
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I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
~ George C. Marshall
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