#is

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#any #enterprise #expectations #fails #hardly

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#data #information #knowledge #understanding #wisdom

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#closer #community #family #friends #i

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11. ↗

— Bill Frist

#daily #daily lives #devote #duty #ensuring

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. ↗

— Bill Frist

#clean #clean water #confronts #cooperation #currency

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. ↗

— Fred Frith

#art #being #debates #downtown #ends

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. ↗

— Fred Frith

#i #improvised #intuition #involves #like

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time. ↗

— Fred Frith

#dialogue #discovering #every #every time #everything

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#either #incapable #loving #others #persons

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed