Seven dangers to human virtue:
- Wealth without work
- Pleasure without conscience
- Knowledge without character
- Business without ethics
- Science without humanity
- Religion without sacrifice
- Politics without principles
💬 Mahatma Gandhi
Via (and thanks to) Jo Wong
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today."
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“One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”
“web1, web2 etc, you can make the story come out any way you like, but RSS, blogging and podcasting were part of the Web 2 story and they are all about decentralization.”
“Mark Twain and I are in very much the same position. We have to put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking.”
If you want endless repetition (in your life), see a lot of different people. If you want infinite variety, stay with one.
What happens when you date is you run all your best moves and tell all …
“Standardisation Is So Hard”
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Many thanks to @pimoore - not just for MicroBlog’s Tufte - but for the help behind the scenes.
Now onto the other styles :-)
“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological–social–psychological–economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”