Unity, Like So Many Good

It Is Hopeless To Try To Convert Some Borders Into Seams.

It Is Immoral For Powerless People To Accept This Powerlessness. They May Not Succeed In Getting Power But They Can Fight For It, And If Enough Fight For It, It Makes It Very Difficult For The People With The Big Sticks.

In Trading With Each Other Cities Can't Be In Too Different Stages Of Development, And They Can't Copy One Another. Backward Cities, Or Younger Cities, Or Newly Forming Cities In Supply Regions, Have To Develop To A Great Extent On One Another's Shoulders. This Is One Of The Terrible Things About Empires. Empires Want Them Only To Trade With The Empire, Which Doesn't Help Them At All. It's Just A Way Of Exploiting Them.

In Wretched Outcomes, The Devil Is In The Details.

Artists, Whatever Their Medium, Make Selections From The Abounding Materials Of Life, And Organize These Selections Into Works That Are Under The Control Of The Artist.... In Relation To The Inclusiveness And Literally Endless Intricacy Of Life, Art Is Arbitrary, Symbolic And Abstracted. That Is Its Value And The Source Of Its Own Kind Of Order And Coherence.