"The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances."

-- Robert Staughton Lynd

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“If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.170
“You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.”
“I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.”

Source : Carolyn Warner (2010). “The Words of Extraordinary Women”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.”

Source : Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.
“if you make waffles, throw out the first one.”
“Although my parents were kind and loving, I had none of the joys, or the companionship, which small children usually have. From my earliest years my recollection is of my father saying: 'Do no' or 'Thou shall not'. Any form of sport or light entertainment was frowned upon and regarded as not edifying. There was only condemnation and prohibition...”
“Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.”
“There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live their life.”

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