#genera

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#each #generation #injustice #predecessors #progress

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#consume #day #dieting #ease #eat

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? ↗

— Tom Clancy

#entertainment #exposes #first #generations #how

My books have all generated controversy. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#controversy #generated

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#i #person #pragmatic #very #which

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#elegant #excellency #generally #heart #taste

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks. ↗

— Helen Clark

#areas #effective #fish #marine #particularly

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse. ↗

— Joe Clark

#bad #captions #closed #course #create

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#change the world #consciousness #general #only #poets

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#general #i #live #only #people