Mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way
with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way
with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.
~ Haruki Murakami
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If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
~ Lao Zi
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
~ John Steinbeck
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
~ Milan Kundera
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Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
― Walter Benjamin
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Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
― Michel Foucault
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The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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