“Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened.”
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- 1 week ago on Monday
- March 8th, 2010 at 9:30am
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“The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in the deposits of faded life on the floor.”
“In the same way, if a state overextends itself strategically - by, say, the conquest of extensive territories or the waging of costly wars - it runs the risk that the potential benefits from external expansion may be outweighed by the great expense of it all - a dilemma which becomes acute if the nation concerned has entered a period of relative economic decline. The history of the rise and later fall of the leading countries in the great powers system since the advance of western Europe in the sixteenth century - that is, of nations such as Spain, the Netherlands, France, the British Empire, and currently the United States - shows a very significant correlation over the longer term between productive and revenue raising capacities on the one hand and military strength on the other.”
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- 2 weeks ago on Monday
- March 1st, 2010 at 12:05am
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“We stayed in touch but the touch I was wanting from her came from girls that scared me too little to love.”
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- 1 month ago on Sunday
- February 14th, 2010 at 9:47am
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“We are a nation that loves to say “sorry.” Scratch that: We are a nation that loves to get off on watching other people say they are sorry. From Tiger Woods to David Letterman to lusty politicians like Eliot Spitzer and Mark “My Personal Appalachian Trail Goes Through Buenos Aires” Sanford, “apology voyeuring” has become our creepy national pasttime.”
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- 1 month ago on Sunday
- February 7th, 2010 at 1:12am
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“In the future the city will be seen as a work of art, and like art it will appear as a chaos of overlapping and competing visions, where liberty will replace the old western and Eurocentric models of order.”
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- 2 months ago on Monday
- January 4th, 2010 at 4:29am
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“When it comes to clever coding, there’s a fine line between amazingly brilliant and incredibly stupid.”
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- 2 months ago on Monday
- December 21st, 2009 at 7:52pm
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“it’s okay, it’s okay, and you’ll save yourself from yourself and write a book and a record about it too,”
