"The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships."

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Source : "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

Vannevar Bush

#Mean Quotes #Squares Quotes #Important Quotes

“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.”
“We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.”
“Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.”
“When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able to have a grown-up person's job with a real salary writing for a fairly sizable audience about stuff I cared about. When you're starting out, you try to get as much experience as you can so people will see your work, and maybe start giving you the assignments you want, and paying you (hopefully both). And if you're lucky you land someplace where you can stay for a while. But today that's a trickier trajectory to envision.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 348, 1895.
“Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.”
“The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.”
“Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?”

Source : Jude Morgan (2012). “An Accomplished Woman”, p.40, Hachette UK

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