"Happiness? No, it's not there for me."

-- Robert Mapplethorpe

“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”

Source : Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.268, Penguin
“In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.”
“The good thing about social media is it gives everyone a voice. The bad thing is â€¦ it gives everyone a voice.”

Source : Brian Solis (2014). “The Brian Solis Digital Reader”, p.375, John Wiley & Sons
“Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.”
“Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work;”
“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”
“To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams.”
“The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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