"As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive."

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Source : Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Don DeLillo

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“No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.”
“It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.”
“I don't want any man to have control over me.”
“This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?”
“The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.”

Source : "How Republicans can win future elections" By Bobby Jindal, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.
“It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.”
“If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.”

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