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the cause of A

The Cause Of A

Toward Project Thirteen

menubar title : Where A = Art, America, or something else…

window 1 : The Cause Of A

The cause of A is in a great measure the cause of all mankind: 

the chief business of those who practise A is Business, in the main by routinizing, even bureaucratizing, the exercise of the imagination.

attached panel 1 title : Common Sense

‘—The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.’

From the Introduction to Common Sense, Tom Paine, Philadelphia, 1776

attached panel 2 title : The Press Under a Free Government

‘—After all, the chief business of the American people is business.’

Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, President Coolidge, 1925

attached panel 3 title : The 9/11 Commission Report

‘—a way of routinizing even bureaucratizing the exercise of the imagination.’

From the concluding recommendations of the Final Report 

of the National Commission 

on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States;
The 9/11 Commission Report, 2004

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