Max Lerner Quotes
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner
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Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.
Florence Nightingale
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Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.
T. S. Eliot
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
Walter Bagehot
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Larry Wall
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The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.
Neon Hitch
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I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.
Philippe Petit
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Bitcoin is valuable as a currency because of the economic efficiencies the bitcoin network is already creating as transactions flow over it. As with the Internet, more applications will flourish which will make the bitcoin network, and thus bitcoin as a currency, valuable.
Fred Ehrsam
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Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.
Claudia Christian
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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner