"A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Distance Quotes #Past Quotes #History Quotes

“How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.”
“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”
“The music paled like a candle and went out ...”

Source : Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”
“I believe if God doesn't give you a miracle, you are a miracle of God for somebody else's salvation.”
“We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.”
“The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.”
“There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.”
“Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.”

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