"The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer."

-- Christopher Lasch

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“The difference between fear and panic is knowing what to do. If you have a reliable, effective solution then fear is an asset. You know what to do and fear just makes you do it faster. On the other hand, if you don't know what to do - or don't trust what you know - then you will freeze in terror, because you have no clear goal or way to get there. Fear helps, panic hinders. Fear is your savior, panic your nemesis.”
“I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.”
“To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.”
“Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.”
“I'm always trying to encapsulate how we, as emotional beings, interact with the world and the machines and technology around us - being able to emote through those things. They're not antithetical or mutually exclusive.”
“Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.”
“The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.”

Source : George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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