Orts #805
Just as the health of the body demands that we breathe properly, so, whether we like it or not, the health of the mind requires that we be creative.
— David Bohm (1917–1992), in the title essay in On Creativity
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
— George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-80)
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
— Toni Morrison (1931- ), in her address accepting the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature
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The best way to be sure that 2017 is not 1934 is to act as though it were.
-- Adam Gopnik, in a remarkable essay, The Music Donald Trump Can't Hear, in The New Yorker, January 13, 2017. http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-music-donald-trump-cant-hear?mbid=nl_170113_daily_newsletter&CNDID=25787760&spMailingID=10226677&spUserID=MTMzMTgyNzEyNDc1S0&spJobID=1081098130&spReportId=MTA4MTA5ODEzMAS2