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Tag: Culture
The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly–that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self.
The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri
He’d go from ten in the morning to one in the afternoon, then he’d come home for lunch, take a little nap, go back to work at three-thirty and stay there till six-thirty.
Here is new York by E.B.White
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, this heightening it meaning. The city is like poetry it compress all life, all races and breeds into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
– E.B. White on NYC
Work as an individual
An individual who has to make things for the use of others, and with reference to their wants and their wishes, does not work with interest, and consequently cannot put into his work what is best in him.
Source : The Soul of Man under Socialism
Stomach to digest
However he puts on this tardy form. This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.
Source : Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
Participation more than observation
Second, the process of design-driven innovation is based on participation more than observation. It entails modifying dominant cultural paradigms and producing possible new meanings,
Source : Design Driven Innovation
Born poor? Bad luck, you have won last prize in the lottery of life
Yet it is this bad capitalism – and the socially immobile society that accompanies it – that has brought the British economy to its knees. A regular visitor to No 10 tells me wryly that the reason the government has lost the competence gene is that almost everyone he meets is an ex-public school boy like him.
Source : The Guardian
This Is What Success Looks Like?
The message is that “important” women don’t take maternity leave, and it makes the rest of us feeling guilty when we do…or worse, perhaps – it makes us feel unimportant by comparison. It tells us that leave (we fought for this, remember?) is not a necessity.
Source : Tech Crunch
Sir David Attenborough: ‘This awful summer? We’ve only ourselves to blame…’
The fact is, if we don’t do something, nature will. “Quite simply, we will run out of food. People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can’t sustain them.”
Source : The Independent
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