"Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our troubled journey through the darkness ... only a few can speak truth to power."

-- Thomas H. Cook

#Journey Quotes #Voice Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“most people are perfectly afraid of silence”
“My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.”
“It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.”
“Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.”
“I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it”
“Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.”
“Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.”
“The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.”

Source : Sherry Turkle (2015). “Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age”, p.250, Penguin

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