"Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert."

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Donna J. Haraway

#Machines Quotes #Lively Quotes

“It's a pretty frantic world that we live in”
“We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasnâ€™t wicked.”
“If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.”

Source : David Millar (2012). “Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.”
“I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.”
“Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.”
“I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark in their profession. Well, of course, I know you cannot invest in securities successfully with odds like that against you if you place dependence solely upon judgement as to the right securities to own and the right time or price to buy them. Then, too, I read somewhere about the man who described an economist as resembling â€˜a professor of anatomy who was still a virgin.â€™”
“You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.”

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