"Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?"

-- Sherry Turkle

#Encounters Quotes #Doe Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.”
“I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.”
“With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for nearly half a millennium can now be opened to see what really has happened to our planet in the past -- and that past is not as distant as we might suppose.”
“Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.”
“Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.”
“Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.”
“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”
“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”

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