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Oral communication unites people in groups. Writing and reading are solitary activities that throw the psyche back on itself. ↗

— Walter Ong

#communication

He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't have made, some flaw in me that he didn't share, so he could believe it wouldn't have happened to him. But it wasn't my fault. It was either blind, dumb, stupid luck from start to finish, in which case, we are all in the wrong business gentleman, or it was a God I cannot worship. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

#religion #business

They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. The world has always been full of vicious predators. For plenty of people this carnage and savagery is business as usual. ↗

— Adam Baker

#gay #life #zombies #business

Youth is in revolt, but this is only the eternal revolt of youth; every generation espouses "good causes," only to forget them when "the young man begins the serious business of production and is given concrete and real social aims," After the social scientists come the journalists with their verbal inflation. The revolt is contained by overexposure: we are given it to contemplate so that we shall forget to participate. ↗

— U.N.E.F. Strasbourg

#business

Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery. ↗

— Martin Cosgrove

#business

Lay still the business of the mind. Let its workers put down their tools and turn to face the glory of the midday Sun. ↗

— Martin Cosgrove

#business

just as energy is the basis of life itself,and ideas the source of innovation,so is innovation the vital spark of all human change,improvement and progress ↗

— Ted Levitt

#change

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity. ↗

— Richard Fortey

#natural-history #change

Today I realized that I am nothing more than tomorrow's ghost. In a way, it robs my sense of self to know I'm always changing; at the same time, it provides incentive to have the best today possible so I can have a positive influence on tomorrow and, if need be, shake some sense into the living. (Samantha Green) ↗

— Riley Noehren

#life-and-living #change

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? ↗

— George Fox

#author #christ #faith #himself #man