"That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word."

-- Alan Lightman

#Determination Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Age Quotes

“At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.”
“Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality...”
“The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.”
“Iâ€™m almost never serious, and Iâ€™m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. Iâ€™m like a collection of paradoxes.”
“Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.”

Source : Cookie Mueller (1997). “Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller”, Serpent's Tail
“What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.”
“The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.”

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