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We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies. ↗

— David Korten

#european #global #local #moving #should

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#god #may #nervous #nervous system #sins

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#both #doubt #easily #everything #life

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#human #lies #noises #obvious #origins

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#i #moment #photographs #posing #released

Но Остап приходил каждый вечер, хотя радостных вестей не приносил. Энергия и веселость его были неисчерпаемы. Надежда ни на одну минуту не покидала его. ↗

— Ильф и Петров

#inspiration #inspirational

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#characteristics #correct #important #map #maps

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#disclosures #inquiry #made #mankind #our

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#alone #between #found #linguistic #link

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#bypass #pause #principle