{"id":1398,"date":"2008-08-11T22:56:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T02:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2008-08-11T22:56:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T02:56:20","slug":"commonplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/commonplaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. <\/p>\n

—Edgar Allen Poe<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. <\/p>\n

—John Locke, Of Reading<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. <\/p>\n

—George Santayana<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. <\/p>\n

—Anna Louise Strong<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. <\/p>\n

—Mark Twain<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. <\/p>\n

—Thomas Paine<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us. <\/p>\n

—JFK, Amherst College, 10\/26\/63<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. <\/p>\n

—Marshall McLuhan, 1969<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. —Edgar Allen Poe Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. —John Locke, Of Reading Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[458,204,123,238,125,104,66],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-cliches","tag-books","tag-futility","tag-life","tag-philosophy","tag-quote","tag-the-road","tag-women","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-my","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}