William O. Douglas Quotes
We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine - technology - to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.
William O. Douglas
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
