#ding

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#awaken #him #man #perhaps #science

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. ↗

— James Wolcott

#dark #door #down #drop #election

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just

The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak. ↗

— James Wolcott

#american people #beltway #bill #bill clinton #clinton

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arts #being #country #declining #due

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#into #light #previously #shedding #slowed

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#here #i #means #people #really

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#boston #camera #first #half #i

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#because #case #enough #i #me

We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul. ↗

— Ellen Wood

#indefatigable #needs #providing #soul #starve