"You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about."

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David McCullough

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“If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.”

Source : Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.314, Vintage
“Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”
“It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.”
“If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.”
“My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.”
“[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external thingsâ€”property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors knowâ€”that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.”
“Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.”
“She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.”

Source : C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.363, St. Martin's Griffin

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