#at

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#curse #either #forgets #greatest #greatest blessing

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#man #nature #part #system #tends

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#great #great power #greater #hope #i

We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next "Batman" movie? ↗

— Joel Schumacher

#america #batman #deserved #get #had

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created. ↗

— Michael Schumacher

#continue #created #fame #far #feel

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#continue #fairer #happiness #imagination #living

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#agony #because #beforehand #cannot #concert

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#eating #i #i believe #i believe in #lunch

At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view. ↗

— Ayana Mathis

#race-relations #home