"Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers."

-- Nicholas G. Carr

#Memories Quotes #Mind Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.”
“Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.”
“I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.”
“The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.”
“I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.”

Source : "Still Skinny in Milan" by Nick Watt, abcnews.go.com. February 27, 2007.
“I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.”

Source : Thomas, Edward (2014). “The South Country”, p.80, Read Books Ltd
“When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.”

Source : Ayelet Waldman (2013). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.113, Hachette UK
“I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.”

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