Paradox

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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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Point Break. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Johnny Utah Productions/Largo Entertainment, 1991.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. Address on university education. Formal opening gathering. 12 Sept. 1876, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 3.

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D'Orleans, Charles. "Je meurs de soif en couste la fontaine [I die of thirst beside the fountain]." Poesies de Charles d'Orleans. c. 1440.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 10:39).

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

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Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press, 1934.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil; or, The Two Nations. Vol. 1, London: Henry Colburn, 1845, bk. 1, ch. 5.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil, edited by Sheila Smith. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 5.

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Smith, Stevie. Observer. 9 Nov. 1969.

Where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Hölderlin

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Hölderlin, Friedrich. Patmos. c. 1808.

Life is much more fun when you have to worry about money coming in.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters. Harry N. Abrams, 1984.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Directed by Ang Lee, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia/Good Machine International/Edko Films/Zoom Hunt Productions/China Film Co-production Corp./Asia Union Film & Entertainment, 2000.

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Iyer, Pico. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. Simon & Schuster/TED Books, 2014, ch. 5. Originally a TED Talk, 2013.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1856, pt. 4, ch. 3.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters 4. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 6, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pt. 4, ch. 3.

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Pushkin, Alexander. Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ [Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse]. St. Petersburg: Alexandr Smirdin, 1833, ch. 4.

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Pushkin, Alexander. Eugene Onegin, translated by James E. Falen. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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Arendt, Hannah. "Civil Disobedience." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972. Originally published as "Reflections on Civil Disobedience" by The New Yorker, 12 Sept. 1970.

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 1, Routledge, 1995, notes to the chapters, ch. 7, note 4.

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Fukuoka, Masanobu. 自然農法 わら一本の革命 [One-Straw Revolution]. Hakujusha, 1975.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Herbert A. Simon

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Simon, Herbert. "Designing Organizations for an Information Rich World." Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, edited by Martin Greenberger. Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873, ch. 5.

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 5.