"A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation."

-- C. V. Wedgwood

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“Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.”

Source : "Signature in the Cell". Book by Stephen C. Meyer, 2009.
“Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.”
“Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.”

Source : Wendy Kaminer (2000). “Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety”, Vintage
“If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.”
“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)”
“Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.”
“If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! (p. 225)”

Source : "Call me by your name". Book by André Aciman, January 23, 2007.
“Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.”

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