Mark Potok famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.
-- Mark Potok

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The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children
-- Mark Potok

#Children #Block #California
What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.
-- Mark Potok

#Government #Immigration #Crisis
Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.
-- Mark Potok

#Hate #Ears #Speech

I feel betrayed by own mother.
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.
Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologiesâ€¦the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

Mark Potok famous quotes

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