"The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine."

-- C.P. Snow

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“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”
“Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.”

Source : David Anthony Durham (2010). “Acacia”, p.72, Random House
“But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.”
“Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.”
“He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.”
“Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.”
“The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.”
“This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.”

Source : "Country stars croon at the White House" by Karin Tanabe, www.politico.com. November 21, 2011.

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