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“Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.”
Source : Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.323, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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“Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.”
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“We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.”
Source : "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.
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“This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.”
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“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
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“The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.”
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“Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.”
Source : "Fictional character: Cosmo Brown". "Singin' in the Rain", www.imdb.com. 1952.
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“The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard.”
Source : "Mentally ready: UFC 155 lightweight Myles Jury interview exclusive with MMAmania.com". Interview with Brian Hemminger, www.mmamania.com. December 27, 2012.