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“THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.”

Made Use Lying Technology Genius Planning Organized

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.”

Ifs Light Lying Black Dark Atheism Creation Genius Worship Come Up Proof Savages Outrage Benevolent Proof Of God Good Lies

Author:Gary Numan

“Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.”

Lying Passion Memories Feet Talent Genius Gratitude Mere Dry Up And Down Bosoms Ungrateful Swept Away Dry Leaves

Book:Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues

Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues

“Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.”

Use Lying Mother Language Genius Ambiguity Communicators Teflon

Author:Robin Lakoff