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According to him the best quality of the leaves must have "creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be ...more
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Pablo Servigne
“Nous avons créé (surtout nos ancêstres) des systèmes gigantesques et monstreux qui sont devenus indispensables au maintain des conditions de vie de milliards de personnes.”
Pablo Servigne, Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes

Austin Grossman
“Computers had their origin in military cryptography—in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.”
Austin Grossman, You

Alan W. Watts
“While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they are instrumental and secondary, and that superior work has the quality of an accident.”
Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

Pankaj Mishra
“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.”
Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Yanis Varoufakis
“It is at this point in the book that the author famously laments that despite our ability to bring food from the earth, we are incapable of creating a system in which the hungry can be fed.”
Yanis Varoufakis, Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία

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