"By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information."

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Source : Paul Rice (1989). “Timesource”, Ten Speed Pr

Paul Rice

#Mean Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes

“We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take the time to pray with Jesus, we too will be converted in mind and heart. It wonï¿½t work if we try to reason it out. The only way is through a change of heart, a coming into a way of being that is the way of Jesus.”
“The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.”
“It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.”
“How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.14, Macmillan
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”
“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.”
“Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.”
“The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.”

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