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“No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.”

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Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is an American journalist and venture capitalist. She is known for her insights into the technology and internet sectors and has served as an advisor to several startup companies. more

“There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.”

People Thinking Stories Courses Brain Wonder Moral Sun Danger Wall Goes On Civilization Normal Sick Dresses Western Untrue Western Civilization Accusing Off The Wall Accusing Me

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.”

Years Joy Known Dying Return Spring Breasts Joy Of Life

Book:The Works of Michael Bruce: Ed. with Memoir and Notes

Source: The Works of Michael Bruce: Ed. with Memoir and Notes

“it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.”

Feelings Running Earth Sports Wind All Things Speed Miles Ice Toes Blades Lifting Splitting

Book:Wings on my feet

Source: Wings on my feet

“On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves.”

Walks Magic Fairs Garden Spread Storm Snow Roof Stem Pearls Lilies Stalking Curb Ivory Turf Snow Storms

Author:John Townsend Trowbridge

“The speckled sky is dim with snow, The light flakes falter and fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains gray and thin.”

Light Fall Sky Snow Hills Gray Valleys Pale Veils Curtains Flakes

Book:Vagabonds: And Other Poems

Source: Vagabonds: And Other Poems

“Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.”

Men Trying Doe Self Law Force Sacrifice Vain Spontaneous Decree Fraternity

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.”

Poetry Poet Earning Bookkeepers

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“Frugality is the mother of all virtues.”

Mother Virtue Frugality

Author:Justinian I

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