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• Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

  Leonora Carrington

  Fatigue, Sentimentality

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• It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Ideas, Essentials

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• It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies, form pressure groups, start revolutions, change forms of government, tinker at political theory. The fact that these expedients have been tried unsuccessfully in every conceivable combination for 6,000 years has not noticeably impaired a credulous unintelligent willingness to keep on trying them again and again.

  Albert J. Nock

  Agency, Government, Years

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• The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.

  Albert J. Nock

  Views, Agreement, Order

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• States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

  David Graeber

  Today, States

  David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.98, Melville House

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• Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

  Rollo May

  Age, Normal, Transition

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

  Neil Postman

  Information, Entertainment, Commodity

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• My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content - in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling.

  Neil Postman

  Creating, Phrases, Use

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.27, Penguin

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• The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.

  Jane Roberts

  Lying, Space, Matter

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• Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from them. It began with the invention of a possible world, or a fragment thereof, which was then compared by experimentation with the real world. And it was this constant dialogue between imagination and experiment that allowed one to form an increasingly fine-grained conception of what is called reality.

  Francois Jacob

  Real, Drawing, Imagination

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• Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection, how different elements relate to each other, you deepen your understanding of yourself and others.

  Bryan Collier

  Art, Understanding, Style

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• Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

  Michael Lewis

  Weakness

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.257, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

  Chip Kidd

  Design, Planning, Plans

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Might, Notion

  James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.172, Wildside Press LLC

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• My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind

  Boyd Rice

  Prayer, Magic, Mind

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• The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

  Adam Parfrey

  Gestalt, Able, Talismans

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• Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property, I wish to assert it. I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated. She believes that co-operation would entirely supplant competition; I hold that competition in one form or another will always exist, and that it is highly desirable it should.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  War, Believe, Missing

  "In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation". Voltairine de Cleyre's Address in Philadelphia, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. December 16, 1893.

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• Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

  Robert McKee

  Artist, Rebellious, Break

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

  Robert McKee

  Moving, Two, Profound

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• All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

  Dario Fo

  Exercise, Target, Democratic

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• I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in tradition yet made to feel new and modern with unexpected or stylized scale, finishes and detailing. This contemporary take on tradition creates a look that's at once current yet timeless, fresh yet familiar…the essence of both beautiful design and a beautifully designed home.

  Candice Olson

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Home

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• Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Independent, Rocks

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• For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Fall, Opportunity, Weather

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• Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Land, Needs

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• I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Sweet, Art, Stupid

  Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”

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