"Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time"

-- Jacques Ellul

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“Thereâ€™s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. Itâ€™s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe itâ€™s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you donâ€™t see what you wish to seeâ€”or glimpse something that you wish werenâ€™t there.”
“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”
“Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.”
“So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.”
“The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.”
“We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.”
“A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.”
“I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Sep 15, 2011

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