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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
The U.S. military was the first customer for integrated circuits.
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
Clearly, the same object can look very different from a distance than it does from nearby, but why should we think the closer inspection more accurate than the other?
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
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