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| | White resonates like an intelligible silence.
—Kandinsky |
| | There is no such thing as the future—only futures.
–Niall Ferguson |
| | Language is a lever that might move the weight of the fickle, war-torn world we live in. It's free, universal, better than plastique and difficult to govern.
Stacey D'Erasmo |
| | The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects—making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
—Susan Sontag |
| | I learned very very early on that something that didn't seem like it would be anything, would be something.
—Annie Leibovitz |
| | Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
—Michel Foucault |
| | It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.
—Albert Einstein |
| | Anger is not a strategy. Anger does not create growth. Only optimism creates growth," he said. "Be the contrarian. Everyone is mad today. Be happy.
—Jeffrey Immelt |
| | All that is not useful to the picture is detrimental.
—Henri Matisse |
| | People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
—Michel Foucault |
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