"You can trace a through-line from the eighties to the present, and in retrospect Trump was always one of the minor avatars of a certain business model, all through that time. One based on branding, celebrity, and exploiting certain quirks of media form for fun and profit. In some ways he is not all that exceptional."

-- McKenzie Wark

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“Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.”

Source : Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.77, Hachette UK
“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.”
“I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.”
“Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.”
“She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?”
“If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.”
“Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.”
“Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.”

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