"The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet."

-- Marc Andreessen

#Running Quotes #Phones Quotes #Water Quotes

“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

Source : Ebenezer Elliott, Mark Storey (2008). “Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.61, Associated University Presse
“Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational.”
“A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.”
“I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.”
“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.”
“There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.37, Vintage
“Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.”
“Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.”

Source : "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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