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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.


Richard Powers


#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.


Dennis Prager


#anything #become #earn #earning #get

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.


Henri Poincare


#fallacy #fine #following #guilty #incapable

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.


Christopher Gadsden


#capable #carry #feelings #following #free

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.


John W. Gardner


#assumptions #capable #capacity #caught #creative

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.


Corliss Lamont


#brains #determining #else #inescapable #just

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.


Ferdinand Lassalle


#again #capable #germany #longer #monarchy

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.


Vladimir Lenin


#capable #capitalists #himself #his #lifting

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.


Vladimir Lenin


#category #causes #classes #despair #does

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.


George Henry Lewes


#great #great power #much #necessarily #power






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