"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences."

-- Lewis Mumford

#Technology Quotes #Novelty Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“My mom just told me the lines, because I didn't know how to read yet. I copied them and that's what I did.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com
“If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.”
“To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.”
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.123, Vintage
“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.”
“I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.”

Source : Georgia Douglas Johnson, “I Want To Die While You Love Me”
“It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.”
“I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.”

Source : "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

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