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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
— Mae West
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God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
— Meister Eckhart
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The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is…
— Thomas Nagel
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Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by…
— John Pawson
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Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
— Umberto Eco
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He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating…
— C.S. Lewis
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If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even…
— Fatih Birol
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In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible,…
— Paola Antonelli
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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.
— Henry David Thoreau
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