Jacques Ellul Quotes
Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.
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I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
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When I've got a girlfriend, I like to be with them as much as possible, and I'm very affectionate.
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One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is the splendid grace. And I think that is what’s happening to me.
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Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.
