"It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again."

-- David Hewson

#Home Quotes #Long Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.”
“We have the Internet of Everything but not the inclusion of everyone.”
“I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”
“So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species?”
“Disciples and devoteesâ€¦what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!”
“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one â€“ everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made â€“ some even say that is how Nature created her species.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.11, University of Texas Press
“Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.”

Source : Francis Lieber (1853). “On Civil Liberty and Self-government”, p.366
“But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing - with it's cumbersome securitization and insane military projects - to destroy the capitalist order itself if that's what it took to make it seem inevitable.”

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