August 2012
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“Amava più musicisti e pittori. Non parlava mai di cinema. E non andava al...”
– Filippo Ascione racconta Federico Fellini
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“The Latin verb cogito for ‘to think’ etymologically means ‘to shake together.’...”
– Arthur Koestler [via Brain Pickings]
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“The thinker, as he sits in his study drawing his plans for the direction of...”
– Walter Lippmann, The Good Society [via Peter Boettke]
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The Case for the City-State - Marcia Christoff... →
While ancient Greece and Renaissance Italy were hardly free of war, violence and corruption, the model they provide for dynamic economic independence cannot be denied. Regional competition, the necessity of private property, entrepreneurial freedom, the leadership of visionaries and of conservative economic practices: All of these brought those countries out of their respective dark ages and onto...
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WatchaMAZEme, a 250,000-book 500-square-meters labyrinth to form the shape of Borges’ fingerprint
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“My Dear Mr. Truman Capote
This is not a fan letter in the usual sense—unless...”
– William S. Burroughs to Truman Capote, July 23, 1970 [via Angelo Ricci]
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“I enjoy government functions like I enjoy getting kicked in the nuggets with a...”
– Ron Swanson (S01E05) 