#lis

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees. ↗

— Ryan White

#facts #guarantees #hundred #listening #medical

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. ↗

— Brigham Young

#build #down #ears #enjoy #enter

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#career #go #i #publishing #willing

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#basis #exactly #exist #lying #only

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

#being #decided #down #had #numerous

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times. ↗