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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ↗


— Max Stirner


#crime #individual #law #own #state

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. ↗


— Lucian Freud


#being there #entirely #everything #his #must

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. ↗


— Lucian Freud


#copies #copy #faithfully #going #hung

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. ↗


— Sigmund Freud


#him #his #like #mirror #nothing

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ↗


— James Stockdale


#cal #department #down #head #physics

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#chain #china #coastal #come #computer

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#downside #environment #fertilizer #golf #great

The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#competitive #country #dominates #economic #economic security

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street. ↗


— Mink Stole


#corner #dead #dead end #end #grew

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. ↗


— Robert Fripp


#completely #depending #different #down #end






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