"First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines."

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Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.225, Macmillan

John Brunner

#Machines Quotes #Use Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.”
“Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.”
“With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.”
“I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.”
“Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.”
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.”

Source : Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.242, Routledge

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