![[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.](/assets/img/quote-photos/technology-has-tended-to-devaluate-the-traditional-vision-inducing-material.jpg)
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A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears. Vittorio Alfieri
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Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.
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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. William Blackstone
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Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor. Vincent Price
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It's not a holiday until you overdo it! Mike Carey
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The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad! Richard P. Feynman
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