Francisco Goldman Quotes
What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's true. I think if I were living in the US, I would just turn my television and radio off for a year right now, and just read.
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.
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The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.
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I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.
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To give pleasure to the old man, I clumsily tried to learn, and I was dreadfully bad.
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Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
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What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's true. I think if I were living in the US, I would just turn my television and radio off for a year right now, and just read.
