"Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one of the things that can happen is that we sacrifice conversation for mere connection. We short-change ourselves. And over time, we seem to forget this, or we seem to stop caring."

-- Sherry Turkle

#Sacrifice Quotes #Caring Quotes #Technology Quotes

“O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.”
“My favorite movie of all time is probably 'Apocalypse Now.'”
“Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that with it came a certain responsibility. It wasn't meant to be purely entertainment; it was meant to be something a little bit more serious - and to provoke people - wrapped within an outer wrapping of entertainment.”
“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.”
“There was a double-wide mobile home directly across from (New Prospect Baptist) church, .. The mobile home even had tie-down straps on it, but it was thrown clear across the highway. Part of the mobile home struck the church, and part of the frame ended up in the woods behind the church.”
“Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings”
“The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.”

Source : Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.15, Paulist Press
“By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.”

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