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Power of imagination (orange peels in water instead of wine), Dickens’ The Curiosity Shop
I cannot understand any democrat not seeing the danger of so distant and indirect a system of government. It is hard enough anywhere to get representatives to represent. It is hard enough to get a little town council to fulfil the wishes of a little town, even when the townsmen meet the town councillors every day in the street, and could kick them
... See moreMixed results from interpreting an image. Seems capable, but this was in response to the question “is there a cup on my desk?” and uploading the image.
Because he himself bumps into a thing, he calls it the nearest obstacle; though the obstacle may happen to be the pillar that holds up the whole roof over his head.

Quotes on Models and Their Uses
Beware when value modeling…
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
By the accident of my present detachment, I can see the inevitable smash of the philosophies of Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, Nietzsche and Shaw, as clearly as an inevitable railway smash could be seen from a balloon. They are all on the road to the emptiness of the asylum. For madness may be defined as using mental activity so as to reach mental
... See moreWill is the rejection of almost everything — similar to how a painter has to choose the frame and borders and subject

Dickens, the curiosity shop

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