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What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#american culture #believe #bet #centers #culture

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#consume #consuming #cycle #hellish #survive

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#express #forming #genius #hands #idea

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#born #ceased #conceived #dissension #distress

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#errors #ever #fancying #foolish #future

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived! ↗

— Alan Vega

#away #because #been #blows #coltrane

Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with. ↗

— Bruce Vento

#done #everyday #going #process #school

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#animal life #beginning #beyond #forms #infinitely

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#civilisation #conflict #conquest #emigration #ever

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #established #fragile #human #humans