a visual collective outlet of inspiration“no outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.”
-ai weiwei
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“exaggeration is my only reality.”
-diana vreeland
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“the tears of the world are a constant quantity. for each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. the same is true of the laugh. let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.”
-samuel beckett, waiting for godot
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“i feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to l’illustration. something desperate, you know.”
-albert camus, ‘a happy death’
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our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. we have guided missiles and misguided men.
– martin luther king jr., 1963
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“Faith” is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
-emily dickinson, ‘faith’
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“we forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
-joan didion (happy birthday, brilliant woman)
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“whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-mark twain
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“one of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision”
-bertrand russell
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“the world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
– albert einstein
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“character is indeed rare in this world, and it takes only a little intelligence to trim your course as circumstances might require, for who is there to point our your mistakes? thus in politics, realism is always right, even if it is morally wrong.”
-Combat “Intelligence and Character” August 29, 1944
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“enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
–kurt vonnegut
