"This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards."

-- David Ervine

#This Society Quotes #Backwards Quotes #Consistently Quotes

“Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.”
“The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.”
“I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.”
“Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.”

Source : Hank Nuwer (2001). “Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking”, p.194, Indiana University Press
“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pÃ¢tÃ©.”
“One faces the future with one's past.”
“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
“To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.”

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