#ages

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

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I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#i #i wish #know #languages #life

I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#better #check #consistent #date #final

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#based #evil #far #good #images

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know? ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#competition #different #different ages #kind #know

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#being #brain #directly #emotional #far

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either. ↗

— Ike Turner

#contracts #days #either #man #marriages

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#basic #certain #cultures #disparate #emerging

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

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