Quotes
Authors
C. Sommerville
"Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it." --
C. Sommerville
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“The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex”
“We're searching for the answers so we can destroy them and dream up better questions.”
“The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.”
“The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality”
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”
Source : Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.
“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
“Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.”
