"panem et circenses" ~ Juvenal
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“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term.”
— Carl Sagan
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“The measure of your education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.”
— Christopher Hitchens
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Butterfly Glasses (1950) Photography by Regina Relang. Model: Gisela Ebel
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It’s all an illusion. Elon Musk isn’t actually a trillionaire. His wealth could evaporate overnight in the right circumstances. The only value is in the people we love, and who love us. Everything else is a house teetering on a cliff edge, and the sea is always coming in.
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“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
― Joan Didion #writers
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David Hockney with Card Player #3 and Bigger Card Players at the Annely Juda fine art gallery in London, 2015. Photo: Dan Kitwood
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The missus: “The sun’s out. It’s dress-down Friday, what are you wearing?”
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Ed Sweetman retweeted
“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, and arrogance they display. And yet these fools find other fools who applaud them; for the like-minded always flock together, and besides, the more worthless a thing is, the more it is admired by the majority of people.”
— Erasmus
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“He who writes for fools always finds a large public.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Many of the actions by which men have become rich are far more harmful to the community than the obscure crimes of poor men, yet they go unpunished because they do not interfere with the existing order.”
— Bertrand Russell
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