"We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from."

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Thomas Frank

#Self Quotes #Age Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.”

Source : Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan (2010). “The Invention of the Jewish People”, p.271, Verso
“What we love to do we find time to do.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
“I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.”
“I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared”
“The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?”

Source : "White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.
“I do believe that [climate change] is real.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“When I started playing solo 10 years ago, I had some ham-fisted idea about trying to subvert the "singer-songwriter" tag/genre, and I tried to obscure my identity into the identity of a collective or band or whatever. That's part of the reason that I used to play with backing tapes and why so much of my early stuff was so awash in tape hiss and echo noise.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it”

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