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The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. ↗

— Alistair Darling

#choke #death #economy #global #global economy

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. ↗

— Grace Darling

#exaggerated #illustrations #inflated #pen #pencil

who are you really? you are not a name or a height, or a weight or a gender you are not an age and you are not where you are from you are your favorite books and the songs stuck in your head you are your thoughts and what you eat for breakfast on Saturday mornings you are a thousand things but everyone chooses to see the million things you are not you are not where you are from you are where you are going and i'd like to go there too ↗

— m.k

#who-you-are #age

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#been #budget #degree #democrats #enthusiasm

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#future #how #paramount #present #surrounded

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs. ↗

— Francis Darwin

#credit #first #goes #idea #man

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#decision-making process #else #everyone #feel #included

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. ↗

— Ram Dass

#belief #born #find #honor #i

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#art #fact #interior #life #only

Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered, though, that even when Fukuyama advanced it, the idea that history had reached a ‘terminal beach’ was not merely triumphalist. Fukuyama warned that his radiant city would be haunted, but he thought its specters would be Nietzschean rather than Marxian. Some of Nietzsche’s most prescient pages are those in which he describes the ‘oversaturation of an age with history’. ‘It leads an age into a dangerous mood of irony in regard to itself’, he wrote in Untimely Meditations, ‘and subsequently into the even more dangerous mood of cynicism’, in which ‘cosmopolitan fingering’, a detached spectatorialism, replaces engagement and involvement. This is the condition of Nietzsche’s Last Man, who has seen everything, but is decadently enfeebled precisely by this excess of (self) awareness. ↗

— Mark Fisher

#end-of-history #fukuyama #history #irony #last-man