"Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."

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“Good-bye to you too ol' Rights of Man!”

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"...the perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving f…"

— Kenneth Boulding

Economics1910–1993

#hope

"The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own …"

— Hans Hofmann

Art1933–1966

#philosophy

"The teacher thus needs a basic education in dogma and asceticism. Apologetics is certainly also good, but the former seems more important to me: ready arguments, as right as they may be, often do not …"

— Edith Stein

Philosophy1891–1942

#education

"Cooperation has a transactional nature, we agree it is a mutual good. Collaboration is deeper, we don’t know what the transaction is, or if there is one, but if I give of myself to this collaboration,…"

— Ward Cunningham

Technology1949

#knowledge