"Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools"."

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Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.

Vincent Massey

#Technology Quotes #Names Quotes #Long Quotes

“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”
“There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.”
“I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.”
“With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'”
“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
“I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.”

Source : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.
“If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.96, Princeton University Press
“Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.”

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