If I had not existed, someone else would have written me.
~ William Faulkner
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Category Archives: 2059 – Quote Unquote
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Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
~ Walter Kirn
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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Midday Music Fix
The Police – Roxanne
Video directed by Derek Burbridge. Shot on location in London, England, inside and near the Lyceum Theatre.
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It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Meetings are a great trap … they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Although how the pandemic started has been hotly debated, a growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China. If so, it would be the most costly accident in the history of science.
~ Alina Chan via The New York Times
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From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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