The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. – Larry Adler Category: Argument & Debate
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. – Lyman Beecher Category: Argument & Debate
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. – William James Category: Worth
Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events. – James Boswell, 1775 Category: History
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord Category: Modern, Modernism
