"The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy."

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Source : "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

George Packer

#Age Quotes #Lines Quotes #Invisibility Quotes

“Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.”
“When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.”
“If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.”

Source : Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.8, Harper Collins
“It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.”
“My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard”
“Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.”
“Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.”

Source : "Making Presidential History". Online chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.
“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

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