"In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort."

-- Piet Mondrian

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“No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's”

Source : Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.586, Macmillan
“To him who has determined, it only remains to act.”
“One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.”
“You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.”
“Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery-engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.”
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
“A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.”
“Life and death do not wait for legal action.”

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