"There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by."

-- George VI

#Gone Quotes #Weight Quotes #Modern Quotes

“I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.”
“Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.”
“Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.”
“Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President.”
“I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.”
“A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.”

Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan
“It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother.”
“Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. But they have really different uses and advantages.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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