Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 7921 till 7940 of 12035.

  • Niels Bohr Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Alan Watts Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Octavio Paz Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Carrie Snow Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
    Carrie Snow
     
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  • Adam Clymer Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Alan Coren Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Bill Gates Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • William Lloyd Garrison Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • A. E. Housman Tell me not here, it needs not saying,
    What tune the enchantress plays
    In aftermaths of soft September
    Or under blanching mays,
    For she and I were long acquainted
    And I knew all her ways.
    Source: Last Poems (1922) No. 40, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Abdul Kalam Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Benjamin Rush Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
    Source: Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush[1]
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Ann Macbeth Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • A. N. Wilson Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Anna Lindh Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Mkapa Terrorist attacks in their own countries do not generate travel advisories aimed at discouraging citizens of other countries from visiting. Why is it that only when threats of terrorist attacks are perceived in our kind of countries are travel advisories issued?
    Source: Accusing western countries of issuing indiscriminate travel warnings, 2003-06-24
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • John Steinbeck Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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