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In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that? ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#before #brains #certain #certain things #connected

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#gardens #grows #our #own #picked

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#am #amazed #dirt #everyday #fingernails

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#between #both #complicity #insofar #remain

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#get #gladly #i #less #older

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush. ↗

— James Bovard

#air #aware #bill #bill of rights #bush

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#bread #break #different #dinner #father

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#child #endeavored #every #parents #planet

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#become #build #capacities #creativity #entrepreneurial

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#been #calendar #done #give #i