Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
~ George Orwell
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
~ Gertrude Stein
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In order to change a way of thinking, it is necessary to undergo profound internal changes and to witness profound external changes, especially in the performance of our duties and obligations to society.
~ Che Guevara
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Today, even middle-school students have been so thoroughly assessed that they know whether the adults have deemed them smart or not. The good test-takers get funneled into the meritocratic pressure cooker; the bad test-takers learn, by about age 9 or 10, that society does not value them the same way.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist.
― Walter Benjamin
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
~ Ansel Adams
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Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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I see no limit to the capabilities of machines. As microchips get smaller and faster, I can see them getting better than we are. I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans.
~ Claude Shannon
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~ Gertrude Stein
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~ Arthur Koestler
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