All differences between groups have not disappeared; this is obvious. Yet they may progressively decline. Exactly for this reason, they assume increasing importance for individuals. It is the rootless, not the rooted, who fetishize their roots.
-- Russell Jacoby
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.
-- James Baldwin
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Privacy has no possible chance -- individual autonomy has no possible chance -- against improving communications.
-- Whitfield Diffie (inventor of public key cryptography)
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain
Quite often, the peddling of a conspiracy theory is a form of confession: a window into how a suspicious mind thinks the world works.
-- The Economist (Editorial 2/3/18)
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
-- George Santayana
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-- Erich Fromm
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
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