I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I’m for that. Where the government is necessary, I’m for that.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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If you fail to honor people, they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when her work is done, her aims fulfilled, they will all say, “We did this ourselves.”
~ Lao Zi
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Power is as power does.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
~ William Faulkner
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
~ Gertrude Stein
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If you control the choke points of social mobility, then you control the nation’s culture. And if you change the criteria for admission at places such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, then you change the nation’s social ideal.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
― Walter Benjamin
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
― Ansel Adams
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We are always the same age inside.
~ Gertrude Stein
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