A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-- Winston Churchill
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
-- Stephen Hawking
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
-- Ovid
Today in America -- the child of European imperialism -- a new revolution is rising. It is the revolution of our time. It is the only revolution that involves radical, moral, and practical opposition to the spirit of nationalism. It is the only revolution that, to that opposition, joins culture, economic and technological power, and a total affirmation of liberty for all in the place of archaic prohibitions. It therefore offers the only escape for mankind today; the acceptance of technological civilization as a means and not as an end, and -- since we cannot be saved either by the destruction of civilization or by its continuation -- the development of the ability to reshape that civilization without annihilating it.
-- Jean-Francois Revel
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The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass-production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving...
-- Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager)
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