If there’s one quality that defines contemporary furniture design, it’s flexibility.
~ Alice Rawsthorn
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Mostly when people think of sophisticated Africa, they think of Egypt. And even that they attribute to aliens.
~ Marlon James
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The American system of government is based in large part on that of 18th-century Britain. The powers of the American presidency look a lot like those of the British monarchy before the American Revolution—the power to propose and veto legislation, to pardon crimes and commute sentences—powers that no British monarch has wielded for ages.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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My ambition, still and always, is to integrate the experiments of modern art with the great classical tradition.
~ Salvador Dali
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Though Utah is very conservative, its residents generally don’t romanticize rugged individualism or Darwinian hyper-capitalism. It has the lowest income inequality in the country, and ranks near the top for upward mobility. The relative lack of racial diversity no doubt helps skew these metrics—structural racism doesn’t take the same toll in a state that is 78 percent white. But economists say the tightly networked faith communities have provided a crucial extra layer to the social safety net.
~ McKay Coppins via The Atlantic
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Most admissions officers at elite universities genuinely want to see each candidate as a whole person. They genuinely want to build a campus with a diverse community and a strong learning environment. But they, like the rest of us, are enmeshed in the mechanism that segregates not by what we personally admire, but by what the system, typified by the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, demands.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
~ James Gleick
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In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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