#lear

In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet. ↗

— William L. Shirer

#nuclear-weapons #war #weaponry #age

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#circumstances #doing #done #enough #find

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads? ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#age

The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #know-thyself #learning #overcoming-fears #self-discovery

... the blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#nuclear-bomb #supernova #age

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#learn #life #rope

Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey—often an unfolding story—and leaving a path for others to follow. ↗

— Marcia Conner

#documentation #knowledge-management #learning #reflection #social-media

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to ↗

— Edith Wharton

#learning #age

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization. ↗

— Beryl Smalley

#specialization #age

At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart. ↗

— Mark Jenkins

#learning #old #young #age