"Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget."
Design icon Stefan Sagmeister in the excellent Things I have learned in my life so far.

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The Story of Eames Furniture

"‘Cancel all student loan debt? But that would be unfair to all those people who struggled for years to pay back their student loans!’ Let me assure the reader that, as someone who struggled for years to pay back his student loans and finally did so, this argument makes about as much sense as saying it would be ‘unfair’ to a mugging victim not to mug their neighbors too."
David Graeber

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"Inspiring hope in a cynical world might be the most radical thing you can possible do."
Jacqueline Novogratz addresses 2012 graduating seniors in a beautiful commencement speech.

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War and Corpses: The Last Hope of the Rich — John Heartfield, 1932

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"Art is a habit-forming drug. That’s all it is for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it. Art has absolutely no existence as varacity, as truth. People speak of it with great, religious reverence, but I don’t see why it is to be so much revered. I’m afraid I’m an agnostic when it comes to art. I don’t believe in it with all the mystical trimmings. As a drug it’s probably very useful for many people, very sedative, but as a religion it’s not even as good as God."
Marcel Duchamp

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"Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up."
Tate Linden

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Richard Brautigan

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"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."
Edward Abbey 

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The one where Chris Ware acts like a miserable person and says some smart things.

Spend the next 8 minutes of your lifetime watching this.

“I believe we are entering a new Middle Ages where visual literacy is the main literacy because it’s faster, it’s more immediate, and it’s visceral; at the same time, there is a lack of vocabulary and lack of understanding of the power of images.”

- Françoise Mouly, New Yorker Art Editor

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Watch It.

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The Sounds of Aronofsky

"I always found the notion of a business school amusing. What kinds of courses do they offer? Robbing Widows and Orphans? Grinding the Faces of the Poor? Having It Both Ways? Feeding at the Public Trough?"

(Source: The New York Times)

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