"The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but theyâ€™re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. Thatâ€™s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything."

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Source : "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

Kevin Drum

#Twilight Quotes #Technology Quotes #Long Quotes

“As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.”
“Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.”
“A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.”
“A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.”
“In good novelistic fashion, the discovery Iâ€™ve made is that itâ€™s complicated. I think thatâ€™s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, donâ€™t do that, or I believe, I donâ€™t believe.”

Source : "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.
“That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.”
“Freedom begins between the ears.”

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