"Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Technology Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Violence Quotes

“Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.”
“If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.”
“The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.”
“Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.”
“We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.”
“Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.”
“...you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for”
“People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.”

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