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Apprentice the Sorcerer

“But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the […]

We see him emblazoned like a superhero on the glossy covers of popular business comic books. The Homeric photo tells

“It’s better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.” (Carlos

American football is a game of strategy and confidence tricks that would make a flimflam man rosy. Commanders, sandbaggers and

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.” (Albert Camus) We long to be immortal –

French Enlightenment philosopher and impecunious renegade Jean-Jacques Rousseau emblematic bon mot “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” (Lao Tzu) Politicians use the term

Some of the most fantastical advancements in modern science and technology are designed to predict weather patterns. Seeing a hurricane

“Having just a vision’s no solution, everything depends on execution The art of making art is putting it together” (Stephen

In peak moments of flow and manic machinations of enthusiasm unbound we kid ourselves into believing that we truly know