"The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them."

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Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

#Fighting Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.”
“Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.”

Source : "Computer Lib". Book by Ted Nelson, p. 42 / Dream Machines p.45, 1974.
“Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.”
“There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.”
“We're down in Mexico. It's for a bachelor party, so we go into a Mexican strip club... I go back with this woman down a murky hallway, and then without missing a beat - these ladies are all business - she goes, 'Go ahead, take out your dong.' 'I'm not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong? If you want to be hip to the lingo, they're not using the word dong up in the States.”
“Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.”
“Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.”
“Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.”

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