#ear

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. ↗

— Jon Postel

#assistant #computer #got #graduate #graduate school

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. ↗

— Pol Pot

#clear #conscience #did #i #join

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms) ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#contact #deadness #emotional #emotions #fear

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#clear #efficient #good #keep #language

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families. ↗

— Colin Powell

#command #earned #families #fun #have fun

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#fear #social-transformation #change

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#blood #body #bread #change #create

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women. ↗

— Susan Powter

#damaging #earth #eliminates #every #half