"Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug."

-- Don Rittner

#Meaningful Quotes #Digital Quotes #Internet Quotes

“I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart or give, so I think my dream readers would be people who just use the book as an excuse to get into their own cycle of thoughts. The book is just like a map. It's just a jotting-down of things that you can interpret in your own ways.”
“It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.”
“The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.”
“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
“In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.”
“What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.”
“How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!”

Source : Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”
“The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.”

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