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Trust is less quantifiable than other forms of capital. Its decline is vaguely felt before it’s plainly seen.
~ Jerry Useem via The Atlantic
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Sara Nelson — the American Union Leader who serves as President of the Association of Flight Attendants — was born on March 11, 1973 in Corvallis, Oregon.
Ms. Nelson holds a BA in theater from Principa College.
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Empires are synonymous with centralized — if occasionally schismatized — hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through — usually — a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society’s information dissemination systems and its lesser — as a rule nominally independent — power systems. In short, it’s all about dominance.
~ Iain Banks
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Via Later … with Jools Holland
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I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it.
~ Marcel Proust
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