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He led me down the Hall of Portraits to the ego-likeness of the Duke Leto Atreides. I marked the strong resemblance between them—my father and this man in the portrait—both with thin, elegant faces and sharp features dominated by cold eyes.
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“Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.”
― How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
― How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
“The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as “temporal exhaustion”: “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.”
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
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“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
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“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
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